Flagpole printed a great profile of the Hungry Gnome, an edible gardenscaping business that helps folks “plan and maintain [a] home vegetable garden.”
I wrote about these kinds of green-thumbed entrepreneurs back in the fall, and you should follow the links in that post if Hillary Brown’s Flagpole article inspired you business-wise.
Also, check out the NYT profile of Randy Polumbo, a L.E.E.D.-certified architect who ditched the usually technologically deterministic and expensice green building methods in favor of using “obtainables” to renovate his home.
“I like stuff that has a patina, and that you can drive a hand-truck into,” said Randy Polumbo, who owns the house, which also has a bathroom ceiling made from ammunition cases and a loft railing made of rusty mattress frames. (“Rust never sleeps,” a sign tucked into a shrine-cum-garden of cactuses, rocks and old handguns observed.)
Polumbo also has a Burning Man/erotic artisitc sculputral side that’s…different. Check out his Flickr slideshow to see what I mean.
