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Was interviewed by WLRN's Luis Hernandez on his show, Sundial. Their article includes link to the audio recording. A highlight: "...

FIU Magazine published a really nice article on tin box , including our critique of the project. In a nutshell, we don't think freest...

The South Miami City Commission voted Tuesday evening to require all new houses (and existing houses undergoing significant renovations) ...

I am delighted and honored to find a short essay of mine in the magisterial catalog that accompanies the exhibition, Enrico Prampolini. Fu...

Great thanks to my FIU colleague, Ray Elman, editor of Inspicio e-Magazine, for featuring tin box . The illustrated essay is based on a p...

Please join us this Sunday for a bike ride through our city parks where we will discuss ideas related to them in the current   Master Plan ...

We're humbled and honored to receive an extraordinary honor from the National Society for the Protection of Endangered Species. Our hom...

Students in the Broadcast Media program of FIU's School of Communication + Journalism came to tin box a few weeks ago to shoot foo...

We've got four bunches of bananas and one bunch of plantains, all in varying stages of ripening.  The bananas represent three differen...

We are pleased to announce that tin box is now an official supplier to IKEA USA! Starting today, you will be able to purchase our sustain...

It's been a good season. For about six weeks, this was our weekly haul from the front yard. Definitely better than mowing a lawn.

With our garden supplying prodigious amounts of greens, tomatoes, and other vegetables, we've been enjoying a lot of salads. Holly fou...

The massive  El Niño event we're going through has produced enormous amounts of rain in Miami this winter. Normally this is our dry sea...

So, while I was in Ethiopia and Tanzania conducting research toward the next book (or two), the garden kind of went feral. It's been v...

We’re pleased to announce that, today, we’ve begun transitioning from tin box to mud hut . Our new venture is rooted in a concern for tim...

Our weekly shares from the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) group we belong/subscribe to are huge. It takes about a week of cooking ...

Eureka. This week we invented a cholesterol-free (and vegan) substitute for egg salad. We simply mashed up half of one of our enormous avo...

Clearing out the summer cover crops to make way for the fall planting season yielded us a few sweet potatoes and a lot of basil. These en...

Admit it: ever since you first saw Casablanca you've wondered, "just what does a hill of beans look like?" More important...

We're fortunate to have a number of excellent sources for locally-grown produce here in South Florida, including weekly farmers' mar...

A number of plants in the back yards are flowering or starting to fruit. We hope to enjoy some summer crops. At left is the lone flower on...

Four years ago, my friend Elie Haddad hatched the idea of editing a survey of architecture built around the globe during the last half cen...

Been meaning to upload these photographs of tin box taken by Dana Hoff , a gifted South Florida-based photographer who frequently works for...

Harvested our first bunch of Ice Cream bananas today. It'll be some time before they ripen and we get to find out just what, exactly, ...

The winter solstice is a good time to take stock of the garden at tin box . It's been a weird winter with unusually high amounts of ra...

Next Saturday, November 16, the Miami-Dade branch of the US Green Building Council (USGBC) is organizing a tour of sustainable houses in S...

Can one garden gnome propitiate the gods of football and gardening? Can one  Gartenzwerg assure our first successful crop of collard gree...

We're very fortunate to be featured in Residential Architect magazine, in a terrific article by Ben Ikenson on net zero construction....

How many great stairs do you encounter in your everyday life? How often do you look forward to climbing and descending a staircase? Stairs...

On Saturday, October 5, we’re participating in Art Fallout 2013 , an annual cultural event in Fort Lauderdale. We’ll present our ongoing t...