“This inspiring Canadian couple have constructed a truly beautiful, eco tiny house on wheels to escape high rent prices and get into their own home.
The perfect camping setup for the back of your truck!
“This is a system I built for a customer with an older Ford F150 with a tall shell on the back. He was pleased with how it came out and is very excited to get camping/surfing down in Baja. I am located in Huntington Beach, California and custom build everything from scratch here in the shop.”
DIY Homestead Garden Towers
I’ve seen garden towers gaining in popularity over the last two years or so but didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to them because of concern about chemicals leaching from the plastic. Richard, a long time reader, explained how a whole garden of closely spaced towers would produce a huge quantity of food in a small area such as a backyard garden where space is often limited. Instead of using plastic, the planters could be made out of safer materials such as terracotta, ferrocement or metal at far lower cost.
Couple Facing Arrest for Living Off-Grid on Their Own Property
“A Huntsville man joined the military to fight for our rights, but now he says his own rights are being threatened. A veteran and his girlfriend said their home was deemed ‘unsafe’ by city officials because they choose to live by self-sufficient means.
Dust Bowl Era Conservationist Aldo Leopold’s Beloved House
“In 1935, the famous conservationist Aldo Leopold bought a worn out farm along the Wisconsin River to live close to the land. The homestead was his grand experiment in attempting to bring life back to Dust Bowl era terrain. Over the course of more than a decade the family of seven planted nearly 50,000 trees … Read more
Schoolie Interiors
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