On 4 acres of inexpensive desert land in Arizona, Kenny Quinn—a veteran turned earth builder—helped create a radically affordable cohousing compound with people he had just met.

Using little money but a lot of ingenuity, they built their homes from the earth itself. With hyperadobe (open-weave bags packed with clay-rich soil), they formed strong, breathable wa...

In Tucson’s western foothills, 28 households have spent 28 years building something that most neighborhoods have lost — a place where knowing your neighbors isn’t incidental, it’s the whole point.

The Milagro Cohousing community is a place where kids can roam freely because ...

From workhorse to wish fulfillment, the pickup truck is often a vehicle that carries less in its bed than in the stories people tell themselves about freedom and need.

I’ve been photographing pickup trucks for years without quite finding the right frame for what I was seeing.

Slate: Is the regular cab (2 seats) too radical a proposition nowadays? More uti...

About 45 minutes from the nearest grocery store—and down roads that become impassable when it rains—Chris and Willy are living in a home that has to function entirely on its own.

When they bought this off-grid Earthship, it had been abandoned for years, which made...

They are the first wave of life after fire. Yet fungi, usually overlooked, do far more: shaping medicine, fermentation, and soil regeneration.

During the next few hours, you will probably hear and read a great deal about AI, and may well use it too. But compared with fungi, its impact on your daily life is still marginal.

Mushroom harvesting; foraging rew...