FedEx tinkerer custom builds no-waste micro farmstead by Kirsten Dirksen on October 17, 2021 Ramutis “Ray” Narkevicius kept his day job with FedEx, but cultivated his dream job by gardening his small Los Angeles …
Urban self-reliance: homestead in Oakland’s small rented lot by Kirsten Dirksen on April 13, 2015 Sheila Cassani began farming her rental home while a college student. She started with a small vegetable patch, but it …
Family compound of streetcars, cob huts, treehouse & barrel by Kirsten Dirksen on August 13, 2013 Over a decade ago, Claudine Désirée was raising 3 young boys alone in a one bedroom home built from old …
Urban goats for organic raw milk in a San Francisco backyard by Kirsten Dirksen on December 5, 2011 Heidi Kooy lives in a fairly dense part of San Francisco- her row house touches her neighbors’- with just 1000 …