Welcome!

Welcome to the Rubber City Homestead!




What is the Rubber City Homestead, you may ask?!?!


The homestead has a number of components. First, a home garden where we grow as much food for our table as possible. Second, an attempt at organic lawn care and sustainable household practices. Next, we craft, build and improvise whenever possible. Thrift stores, garage and estate sales don't intimidate us, though we are realistic about the short hours in our weekend. Someday we may move the family to an area of the country where organics are more readily available and sustainable living is a bit more accessible. Until then, we will post what we have learned on the Rubber City Homestead in an attempt to help others and share the nearby resources.


In short, my husband and I are on the train, we have joined the motivated and the resourceful masses who seek to provide a more nutricious and wholesome life for themselves despite their urban local.  After a few years of gardening and a solid foundation of resources and recipes we are getting closer to our goal of eating food that comes from our area. I like to think that we are an innovative pair, refurbishing, crafting and combining whatever we can to meet our household needs.


A desire for the sustainable, a craving for healthy living, and some jonesing to communicate with others that share the same passions in the urban realm... this is where the concept for Rubber City Homestead was born!




May you live healthy, eat well and grow strong.


the Rubber City Homestead