Aug 27, 2018
City of St. Louis and near-suburb residents might think "our" watershed is nothing more than a concrete drainage ditch. Theo Smith, coalition chair, and other members of the River Des Peres Watershed Coalition, see this urban waterway differently.
River Des Peres drains over 115 square miles in the City of...
Aug 22, 2018
When a chance college dorm meeting prompts parlay about urban ag and life's design, can a live/work partnership based on decay, and inspired by nature, be far behind?
In the everyday and enterprise of Tim Kiefer and Beth Grolmes-Kiefer, for sure YES.
These two purposeful young sustainably-focused...
Aug 14, 2018
Alicia and Josh Davis are farmers (and both are, by training, engineers) on a plot they call Green Finned Hippy Farm, near Pocohontas, Illinois.
They started life together, and their farming ambition, aquaponically raising ("green," finned) Tilapia fish. That was 2010. Today their rural 18 acres support hens in pasture,...