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Category: Visions for the Future

Ways this land could be used: sanctuary, healing center, sober living, vegan co-living, multigenerational homestead.

Illustrated cross-section: solar shade over picnic tables, fruit trees, a data center with a living roof sending warmth to a greenhouse, a wetland and lake with a heron, geothermal wells and a mycelium network underground.
October 20, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

The Data Center as Oasis: Reimagining Technology’s Footprint

Painted illustration of a sunny Ozark meadow where an older man hugs a cow, a young couple laughs with a goat, children run with a piglet, a teen pets a lamb, chickens wander and a golden retriever trots along
October 19, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

This Land Could Be a Farm Animal Sanctuary

A hand-drawn survey map of numbered land lots with boundary measurements
October 19, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

The Permaculture Map: What We First Dreamed for This Land

Watercolor of a visitor on a hay bale watching a pig root through autumn leaves, with goats and hens nearby
October 19, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

A Different Kind of Sanctuary

The cypress log house with its red metal roof, two dormers, and covered front porch, seen from below across a rocky, grassy slope
October 19, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Hidden Potential: The Surprising Opportunities for Private Spaces and Expanded Living Quarters

Bird's-eye watercolor of Ozark land with garden circles, fruit trees, a pond, a meadow and a pasture of resting cows and pigs, with people walking the paths
October 18, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Six Ways to Belong, the Vegan Way: Ideas for Whoever Comes Next

Illustration of a log house in green hills with gardens and rescued animals, with golden circles of light spreading outward across a globe to small glowing homes around the world, all connected by threads of light.
October 18, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Creatively Writing What Could Happen in the Future: How Living Springs Log House Became the Heart of a Compassionate World

Stacked stones and boulders beside the log house, overflowing with blooming comfrey, white daisies, and leafy green plants growing in every crack
October 16, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

From Rock Pile to Rock Garden: Reclaiming a Boulder Cascade With Permaculture

Watercolor of a sloping autumn Ozark pasture with a sycamore, persimmon and cedar trees, sheep and goats grazing, a small shed and pond, and a father with a child on his shoulders watching from the fence
October 16, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Water and Shelter for a Sanctuary Pasture: The Living Springs Log House Improvement Checklist, Part 3

Watercolor of a diverse group of adults sitting in a circle of wooden chairs on a grassy hillside, sharing in a support meeting, surrounded by small vignettes of people eating a plant-based meal together, tending a vegetable garden, and visiting rescued goats and a pig
October 14, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Imagining Vegan Sober Living at the Living Springs Log House

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