A couple of days ago I was reading an article in the New Yorker where the author used the word “recursion.” I wasn’t quite sure what it meant (seems I remember something about two mirrors facing each other?) so I did what I always do: I Googled it. At the top of the search page Google asked, “Did you mean: recursion” as it always does when it thinks you have misspelled the word or phrase for which you are looking. Since I am such…

Since 2005, in addition to the traditional charity homes and community projects that the Rural Studio has designed and built, we have been ardently working to bridge the barriers between the income-earning poor and their accessibility to existing affordable federal housing programs. The goal of the $20k House project is relatively straightforward, yet has profound implications: provide a replicable housing model that is creative, affordable, durable, energy efficient, diverse in housing type, and that can be purchased by a prospective rural homeowner…

Spring (hopefully) is just around the corner – maybe two more weeks of really cold weather? This weekend was pretty awesome – we finally got a little glimmer of warmer days to come.With temperatures approaching 60 degrees, it was impossible to stay off the bike. On Saturday morning I got a little bit of a late jump on the day, but decided to head out to the Comet to ride anyway. At the 20 mile turn around, who do you think I ran into…

Over the past few weeks we have been absolutely inundated with sweet potatoes from our CSA. While there are all kinds of recipes out there for a wide variety of mashed potato and sweet potato casserole kind of things, we really wanted something different. After looking at all kinds of options, I decided on another “mash-up” kind of thing: with all of the sweetness of the potatoes, I thought it would be nice to mix it with something kind of hot and spicy.…