Uprooted, an eco/travel blog

This post is the first of a three-part series on bike culture. Come back Friday to read about anarchy, bike jousting, and two-wheeled social protest.

Remember when you got your first bike? Was it a Christmas present, or maybe a birthday gift? Remember how much fun you used to have on that bike, how fast you [...]

After the shock of Detroit, the grit of Chicago, and the Big-Ag monocultures of Indiana, I was ready to say goodbye to the troubled Midwest. Good thing, because I was headed straight for New York!
Here, I took a little mental break and enjoyed the rainiest summer ever with some help from Quiet Earp, his friends [...]

When I first told my friend Landry I was going to Detroit, she advised me to visit the Heidelberg Project. Thinking it was some sort of museum piece, I put it on the Maybe List—and later forgot about it completely as Detroit’s stark reality washed over my little head.
Nonetheless, later that day we drove right [...]

I went to Detroit following rumors of dirt-cheap housing. What I found there was shocking.

Just a quick note this morning, to let you know that I’ve added a Trippermap to the site! This map pulls all my Flickr photos and puts them on an interactive Google map.
The map is still a little buggy, but nonetheless I’m really enjoying looking at all the places I’ve visited in the past year. [...]

Reign of Grace cob bathhouse at Dandelion Sustainability Farm

My longtime readers will remember Dandelion Farm (Lower Lake, California), where I had my first WWOOFing experience way back in December. The other day I received this message from them, and thought I’d pass it along for anyone in California who’s interested in natural building.
Candace Stolley writes:

volunteers [...]

Yesterday I told you all about Farmer John’s struggle to save his family’s farm and preserve his unique identity (The Real Dirt on American Counterculture: How Farmer John made ideals come true).
From a family farm, the place has grown a lot. These days, Angelic Organics does a lot of education, from on-farm training to urban [...]

Farmer John’s desires are simple: he just wants to live his life according to his beliefs. But his pursuit of happiness wasn’t always easy.