Lloyd Kahn shows his book on simple shelters under 500 sq-ft by Kirsten Dirksen on April 30, 2012 Lloyd Kahn learned to publish books working as the shelter editor on Stewart Brand’s The Whole Earth Catalog over 4 …
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 …
Medieval Spanish ghost town now self-sufficient ecovillage by Kirsten Dirksen on October 17, 2011 It’s a utopian fantasy- discover a ghost town and rebuild it in line with your ideals-, but in Spain where …
Can suburban homesteads lead to higher well-being? by Kirsten Dirksen on September 25, 2011 “I think a majority of economists would agree that we’re at a fundamental turning point in terms of our financial …
Backyard farmers by necessity: self-sufficient and debt-free by Kirsten Dirksen on April 30, 2011 When Myrna and Earl Fincher married 53 years ago they started farming their yard “out of necessity”. As Earl remembers: …
Scion exchange: how to graft a backyard of fruit by Kirsten Dirksen on December 27, 2010 If it hadn’t been for introduction of grafting, we wouldn’t have domesticated apples or cherries and since these heterosexual fruit …
Gandhi, Malcolm X, DIY, open source & happiness by Kirsten Dirksen on May 25, 2010 Happiness, for Mahatma Gandhi, was “when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony”. For …
