My war against the perfect lawn started with a confrontation over dandelions. Not my dandelions, mind you—Mrs. Petersham’s next door.…
I realized I had a pet food problem on my hands while researching an article about meat consumption. I was…
So there I was, staring at what used to be my vegetable garden, watching a particularly smug-looking chicken dust herself…
Never thought I'd be the guy telling people to stop mowing their grass, but here we are. Three years ago,…
The first time I tried making biochar in my backyard, I came dangerously close to turning my tool shed into…
My wife's grandmother had this basement that smelled like pickles and apples – sounds weird, I know, but it was…
I used to think climate change was just about polar bears and melting ice caps. Pretty naive, right? It took…
My friend Jake from work has been talking about <a href="https://zeroemissionjourney.com/tiny-house-design-maximizing-functionality-in-minimal-square-footage/"><a href="https://zeroemissionjourney.com/tiny-house-design-maximizing-functionality-in-minimal-square-footage/">tiny houses</a></a> for years. He's always sending me YouTube…
That ice storm in February 2021 was a real eye-opener for our family. I mean, we'd dealt with weather before…