Making the Energy Garden
An 18-month experiment in self-sufficiency.
FOOD+FUEL: The front yard of the Energy Garden at the height of summer 2007.
Photography by The Energy Garden Team
On Valentine’s Day 2007, we immigrated from Vancouver, B.C., to Sebastopol in Sonoma County, Calif. To our surprise, the house we’d rented, sight unseen from an ad on Craigslist, had a double-sized lot. The third of an acre was in a very run-down state; it had been used as a Rottweiler and pig run by the previous tenants. Our request to turn the yard into a garden was granted by the landlord, and the Energy Garden was born. ...
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