Homeless shepherd starts world’s smallest farm. All fits in DIY wagon by Kirsten Dirksen on July 23, 2023 Aaron Fletcher has been a nomadic shepherd for about a decade, but more recently he has settled down as a …
Homeless shepherd shares hunter-gatherer diet & survival tips by Kirsten Dirksen on October 17, 2022 For more than a decade Aaron Fletcher has lived as a nomadic shepherd, mostly out of a micro-camper pulled by …
Cabin with glass sunroom becomes Oregon’s ideal Nature lookout by Kirsten Dirksen on August 21, 2022 When Joanna and Otto Lovera bought their home in Eugene, Oregon everything (walls, carpet, paint) was what she calls “band-aid …
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 …
Arcimoto 3-wheel EV commuter blends bikes’ fun + cars’ safety by Kirsten Dirksen on July 25, 2022 Arcimoto is an ultra-efficient “autocycle” (officially) that gets the equivalent, in charge, of 230 miles per gallon. When founder Mark …
A genealogy of itinerancy: from hobos to homelessness by Nicolás Boullosa on September 2, 2021 It was the summer of 2015. We didn’t know yet, but we were about to sell our apartment in Barcelona …
Sewed own popup dome-home for need, been selling them since by Kirsten Dirksen on December 19, 2020 In 1979 Asha Deliverance sewed her first geodesic dome on an old Singer sewing machine, finishing it in time to …
Solo living in a “camper-airplane” as architecture of collapse by Kirsten Dirksen on May 17, 2020 For 20 years, Bruce Campbell has lived on a Boeing 727 in the woods outside Portland and he thinks more …
Rogue deployable shelters for off-grid OR desert living by Kirsten Dirksen on July 8, 2018 I first heard about the Alvord Desert from a local who told me he lived 100 miles from the nearest …
Snowboarder’s 1950s fire truck as a cozy place to call Home by Kirsten Dirksen on May 13, 2018 Since he was a teen Austin Smith has been paid to chase the snow around the world, but after a …