Kristie Wolfe restores boat-shaped cabin in forsaken lake by Kirsten Dirksen on August 9, 2021 Kristie Wolfe has transformed a giant potato, a fire lookout, and an earthen hole into homes and now she’s converting …
Done with city life, he’s reviving an ancient housebarn by Kirsten Dirksen on May 1, 2021 Traditional Basque housebarns – “baserri” (“caserío”, in Spanish) – are farmsteads that could sustain the multiple generations of family that …
Towable, off-grid Ecocapsule gathers energy/water anywhere by Kirsten Dirksen on July 26, 2020 Can off-grid, anywhere-living appeal the masses? The Ecocapsule mobile dwelling gathers solar/wind energy, harvests/filters water. It shelters 2 and includes …
Valldaura Labs culls restored forest for buildings & biomass by Kirsten Dirksen on May 3, 2020 When a computer-based, self-reliant city-lab high in the hills above Barcelona designed and built a tiny home, they used parametric …
50 years off-grid: architect-maker paradise amid NorCal redwoods by Kirsten Dirksen on April 26, 2020 In 1968, Charles Bello and his wife Vanna Rae moved onto 240 acres of redwood forest looking to live a …
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 …
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 …
Joy of rebuilding a settler cabin log-by-log on MN homestead by Kirsten Dirksen on September 1, 2019 John spent 15 years building his home and all the furniture, mostly with lumber from the woods of his Long …
