When a community comes together to make sure its members are fed, special things can happen. More than 20 backyard gardeners in and around Alpharetta, Georgia, are signing up to grow vegetables for local families with a new program called Homegrown Harvest. The effort, organized by the nonprofit North Fulton Community Charities and Alpharetta’s Community…
Sometimes, the wedding of your dreams is more attainable than you might think. A woman who wanted to be married in the backyard she grew up in got her wish after her father spent eight months rebuilding the space to match what she had always pictured. Nina Salci said that when she got engaged, she…
What do you do when a wild animal is hanging out in your backyard? Let it hang out in your backyard and share the footage with the world, because you don’t want to mess with a mountain lion. One of the animals was recorded on a home doorbell camera calmly walking through a backyard in…
Palm trees may be fun to look at, but they can sometimes pose a serious risk to their surroundings when it comes to flammability. A Rancho Bernardo homeowner is raising the alarm over dozens of untrimmed palm trees surrounding an elementary school and nearby homes, warning that their dried fronds create a serious fire risk….
When it comes to data centers, there are tons of cases growing ever more serious around the country, uniting under a single banner: residents don’t want them. One homeowner in Louisa County, Virginia, is suing Amazon over disruptions from the construction of a data center campus being built across the street from his property. Austin…
A UCLA lab that runs one of the world’s longest studies of wild marmots has started an OnlyFans account to help keep the project alive after its funding dried up. The account, called OnlyMarms, posts near-daily photos and videos of chubby yellow-bellied marmots rather than anything the platform is usually known for, according to SFGATE….
What happens when you’re met with a surprise bill? You start asking questions, just like this western Chicagoland homeowner did. They had a 20-kilowatt solar array on the roof expecting monthly electric bills to fall close to zero, and instead kept getting charged even as the panels poured surplus power back onto the grid. Across…
A tiny home village built by volunteers to give unhoused veterans their own homes is now operating at full capacity in Longmont, Colorado, after community fundraising helped the nonprofit behind it finish construction. The Veterans Community Project of Longmont, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, built the 26-unit village to provide transitional housing and support for veterans experiencing…
Firefighters pulled a black cat and a hamster from a burning single-story home in unincorporated Palm Beach County, Florida, on Monday night, and no one was hurt. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue crews were dispatched around 9 p.m. to the 5000 block of Basil Avenue for a reported structure fire, according to WPTV. They arrived…