Self-Sustainable Lifestyles are Becoming Illegal

Across the U.S. local zoning officials are making it increasingly difficult for people to go off-grid and live self-sustainable lives. Building tiny homes, harvesting rainwater, using solar or wind energy, and even building community gardens are being targeted and in some cases, the people involved are even threatened with jail time and fines. Tiny Homes […]
Video: It Takes a Garden to Raise a Community

A poem, penned by Khalilah Bilal, of Beacon Hill Community Garden, San Antonio, Texas: Choking in anger, anger sat in my bowels It is the fiber of my hair, debilitated from fear I begin to weed, it takes the pain away. It takes a garden to raise a community I found solace in the garden, […]