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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

Big leafy comfrey plants growing in a hugelkultur bed edged with old weathered logs, beside the driveway and log house stairs
October 16, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Hugelkultur: Building Garden Beds From Logs, Leaves, and Time

Watercolor of a rocket mass heater with a steel drum and a long stone and cob bench inside a cozy room, a pot of soup simmering on top and a basket of sticks beside it
October 16, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Rocket Stoves Beyond the House: The Living Springs Log House Improvement Checklist, Part 5

Watercolor of a multigenerational family sharing a plant-based meal on a screened-in porch under a ceiling fan, with a golden retriever under the table, surrounded by small round scenes of a whole-house fan, a breezy open window, vines on a deck railing, a clothesline and a cave spring
October 14, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Staying Cool Without Air Conditioning: The Living Springs Log House Improvement Checklist, Part 7

Watercolor of a rocket mass heater with a steel drum and a long stone and cob bench inside a cozy room, a pot of soup simmering on top and a basket of sticks beside it
October 14, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Rocket Stoves, Clean Fire for a Self-Reliant Life: The Living Springs Log House Improvement Checklist, Part 4

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 12, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Part 1: Helping Animals Helps People: Why the Supposed Trade-Off Is a False Choice

A fenced vegetable garden with white low-tunnel hoops below the log house deck, with comfrey in front and Prayer Lake and wooded hills in the distance
October 2, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

An Off-Grid Living Checklist for the Arkansas Ozarks

Autumn-colored wooded hillside above a blue lake, with two red-roofed buildings in the distance
August 23, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Potentially Living Off the Grid, Gently: Self-Sufficiency at the Living Springs Log House

Illustration of seedlings and winter greens on shelves, with frost on the clear panels behind.
August 23, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

More Self-Sufficiency Tips: Building a Greenhouse

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