Giant Earthship vs wildfire: Did good prepping save this ecovillage? by Kirsten Dirksen on December 17, 2023 Dan Schultz spent 15 years building his off-grid self-sufficient utopia with whimsical homes and trees and gardens that produced enough …
How will we live? urban prepping & rural resilience’s momentum by Kirsten Dirksen on April 18, 2020 “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. …
A remote lake cabin with water-only access in wild Ontario by Kirsten Dirksen on March 29, 2020 Last summer, we visited friends on a small lake north of Toronto where the underlying Canadian Shield (mostly granite with …
Starting over & towing West an off-grid, wood clad tiny home by Kirsten Dirksen on August 11, 2019 Kim Harmsen crossed the country by RV when she was married, but now single she built herself a tiny home …