Off-grid Hawaii dream: couple builds budget home & thriving food forest by Kirsten Dirksen on November 29, 2023 Matt Holton and Cristina Pineda were living on Maui where the average home price is a million dollars when they …
Turns barren suburban lot into high-yield Microfarm & YT studio by Kirsten Dirksen on August 8, 2022 On a 1/3rd acre urban lot in Corvallis, Oregon, horticulture professor and youtuber Andrew Millison has spent the past 12 years …
Didn’t use garage, turned it into his parents’ modern home by Kirsten Dirksen on October 24, 2021 To convert a garage into a home, Ramiro Losada-Amor left the structure untouched and dropped a birch box inside to …
Nebraska retiree uses earths’s heat to grow oranges in snow by Kirsten Dirksen on May 27, 2018 Winter temperatures in Alliance, Nebraska can drop to -20°F, but retired mailman Russ Finch grows oranges in his backyard greenhouse …
FarmBot: open-source backyard robot for automated gardening by Kirsten Dirksen on September 26, 2016 In the front yard of Rory Aronson’s San Luis Obispo home (that he shares with 9 roommates), a robot is …
Dryland-harvesting home gathers sun, rain, food, & more by Kirsten Dirksen on August 7, 2016 When Brad Lancaster and his brother bought their home in downtown Tucson, the streetscape was a dusty place, devoid of …
Lloyd Kahn on his NorCal self-reliant half-acre homestead by Kirsten Dirksen on May 18, 2015 At 80 years old, Lloyd Kahn is an icon of alternative housing. In the seventies he was a poster child …
Japanese-inspired charred wood tiny home in Ohio town by Kirsten Dirksen on April 6, 2015 When Alex Melamed and his wife moved to the traditional brick and mortar town of Yellow Springs, Ohio they built …
Steve Job’s Google of the 60s: Whole Earth + homestead tour by Kirsten Dirksen on October 31, 2011 Steve Jobs called The Whole Earth Catalog “one of the bibles of my generation”. He went on to explain in …
Refarm the city: open source tools for urban farmers by Kirsten Dirksen on May 24, 2011 We’re becoming an urban planet – more than half of us live in cities – so if we want local food, …
