How I Turned My Yard Into a Food Paradise
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison gives a tour of his 15 year Permaculture food paradise at his home in the Willamette Valley of Western Oregon. There are 5 key design strategies…
Detroit People’s Food Co-op Opens May 1
Join the Celebration! “On opening day, I want everyone in Detroit to walk through our doors and feel like this is their store,” said Talley. The DPFC opens for business…
Exploring an Interior Atrium in a Modernist Sacramento Home | Home Tour
Walking into Tyler and Jessica's Streng home you are instantly taken back by the indoor atrium covered in succulents and Cacti. Their home is one of among 3,800+ homes that…
Japanese pachysandra
Japanese pachysandra is a tough plant and this toughness makes it useful in the yard. It is an evergreen perennial—a plant that is herbaceous in the sense it lacks woody stems,…
Can Vertical Meadows Bring Wildlife Back to Cities? | WILD HOPE
As urban expansion quickly replaces natural habitats, façade engineer Alistair Law has discovered a new way to restore native ecosystems for pollinators and create natural spaces for us all within…
The Victorian Flower Garden
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LA family turns unused garage into small home Oasis (before/after)
They were running out of space in their two-bedroom bungalow for a family of four, a home office, and frequent family visitors, so Gennifer Leong-Alvarado and Pastor Alvarado decided to…
Friends couldn’t afford apartments. Bought the building instead
As a housekeeper, Johnny Sanphillippo couldn’t afford to buy an apartment in San Francisco, but then he heard one of his employers talking about wanting to sell his five-unit building.…
7 friends built restoration ecovillage. Outcome 50 years on
In 1994 a group of seven friends began living and farming together after taking over an 80-acre, 1974 organic farm 70 miles north of San Francisco that had been left…
At My Urban Farm, I’m Growing My Family and Growing Our Sanctuary
“Identity,” he said, “is formed from three components: first, self-identity; second, social identity; and third, legal identity—the most important of which is self-identity, the only facet of identity that involves…