Turns abandoned $1.3K oil tank into Tower Home on tiny Nordic island by Kirsten Dirksen on October 14, 2024 Martin Otterbeck and Agnete Brun bought an old, rusty oil tank that once held 200,000 liters (53,000 gallons) of diesel …
Built off-grid homestead. Then became Fermented Foods’ go-to expert by Kirsten Dirksen on October 6, 2024 When Sandor Katz moved to rural Tennessee from Manhattan after a health crisis, he had no experience with gardening nor …
Turns forsaken WW2 bunker into perfect Arctic underground cabin by Kirsten Dirksen on September 29, 2024 After discovering an abandoned World War II bunker while on a hike in northern Norway, Henrik Lande Andersen spent two …
Friends couldn’t afford rent. Pooled together to buy homes instead by Kirsten Dirksen on September 22, 2024 Phil Levin and Kristen Berman wanted to live near their friends, but they didn’t want to sacrifice their privacy, so …
He quit his job to build dream cliffside hamlet in Appalachia by Kirsten Dirksen on September 15, 2024 While on a bike ride outside of Asheville (North Carolina), Doug and Jen Mielke fell in love with an overgrown …
How entire villages lived in just 1 building in remote Far North by Kirsten Dirksen on September 8, 2024 For thousands of years survival in Norway’s countryside, where farms were miles from each other, meant complete self-sufficiency. Farmsteads were …
Family builds village of dugout homes into remote SoCal hill by Kirsten Dirksen on September 1, 2024 Homes are square, they said. Polymath artist James Hubbell built 100%-curvy Hobbit Village 🐚 In 1958, James and Anne Hubbell …
The lot fit 9 McMansions. They built 44 small homes for locals instead by Kirsten Dirksen on August 25, 2024 Maggie and John Randolph kept losing employees priced out of the New Hampshire coast, so they got to support local …
Guide to the Good Life from architect-farmer amid redwoods: 55 years off-grid by Kirsten Dirksen on August 19, 2024 At age 92, after 55 years living off the land, Charles Bello still spends long days growing his own food …
Viking longhouse above Arctic Circle is protective half-buried dwelling by Kirsten Dirksen on August 4, 2024 Three hundred kilometers north of the Polar Circle, on the Lofoten Island of Vestvågøya, a farmer discovered the remains of …
