A Pet That Makes Milk
They’re as playful as dogs and they also provide milk (and if you chose, meat). Backyard goats may not have reached the popularity of pet chickens, but they’re gaining ground, even in cities. It’s now...
View ArticleThe Campaign to Take Goats to the White House
The owners of Bellevue, Idaho’s Cottonwood Ranch think that goats make such great pets they believe not only should every neighborhood have a backyard dairy, but that there should be one at the White...
View ArticleSimple life Manhattan: A 90-square-foot home
The average size of the American home is shrinking – it dropped in both 2008 and 2009 after 15 straight years of growth-, but we’re still living much larger than those in the Big Apple. Home size in...
View ArticleDIY Treehouse Inventor Creates Ewok World in Rural Oregon
In 1974, fresh out of the army (as a Green Beret medic), Michael Garnier went to rural Oregon to try to make a living off the woods. He tried making furniture, fences, pole barns and selling organic,...
View ArticleUrban Beekeeping
Bryon Waibel runs what he believes is the world’s only urban beekeeping store. It’s called Her Majesty’s Secret Beekeeper and Waibel, who uses the handle 006, does seem to believe that he/ the store/...
View ArticleCave Home in Loire is Charming Bioclimatic Troglodyte House
In the Saumur region of France there are over a thousand miles of underground tunnels and thousands of caves, known as “troglodytes”, homes, hotels, restaurants, museums, wineries, farms (silkworms,...
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