It all started with 28 homes. A walkable food-forest made it a village oasis by Kirsten Dirksen on March 29, 2026 In Tucson’s western foothills, 28 households have spent 28 years building something that most neighborhoods have lost — a place …
Rebuilding abandoned giant Earthship into 3-story, off-grid home ecosystem by Kirsten Dirksen on March 22, 2026 What does it take to rebuild an abandoned giant off-grid Earthship into a fully working 3-story home? About 45 minutes …
30 years fine-tuning micro-homestead oasis: nothing missing, little extra by Nicolás Boullosa on March 15, 2026 For nearly 30 years, David and Pearl Omick have been fine-tuning a tiny, portable home in the Sonoran Desert—an 8×16-foot …
He lived on the street. Now turns raw dryland into frugal homestead by Kirsten Dirksen on March 1, 2026 After being laid off with just $6,000 in savings — and having experienced homelessness — John started over. He left …
Homesteading from the Homestead Act to YouTube. A real American Dream? by Nicolás Boullosa on February 19, 2026 The tools changed from axe and almanac to solar and smartphones, but the old wager remains: live deliberately, outside the …
Military couple turns forsaken mountain ruin into off-grid family oasis by Kirsten Dirksen on January 18, 2026 After leaving Navy careers behind—Maartje (18 years) and Clemens (22 years)—this couple packed their lives into 8 suitcases, sold or …
Homestead Paradise: got barren land, boosted it at a profit by Kirsten Dirksen on March 27, 2021 In the early 90s, Mark and Jen Shepard bought a degraded corn farm in Viola, Wisconsin, and began to slowly …
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. …
How we live now: tips from offgridders, tinyhousers, homesteaders by Kirsten Dirksen on April 9, 2020 Resilience: “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.” For some, preparing for the unexpected has been a way of …
The world from our window: seclusion as introspection opportunity? by Kirsten Dirksen on April 5, 2020 A virus, smaller than a micron, has made it clear that we are now a world without borders. Confined to …
