Farming Cuba: Carrot Harvest At the Vivero Alamar organopónico in Havana, growers harvest carrots that have been grown without pesticides or herbicides, instead using compost tea, mushroom rhizomes, artisanal pest control products, and permaculture strategies such as intercropping. Photo provided by Carey Clouse

A closer look at the champagne chalk used to color drikolor’s champagne white paint.

Ultramarine pigmented, harvested in France.

Harvested charcoal to create a stir-in pigment for drikolor paint.

SLO Architecture’s Harvest Dome 2.0 was installed at the Inwood Hill Park inlet in northern Manhattan from July 31 to September 3, 2013.

The architects reassembled steel umbrella frames into a cupola, 24 feet in diameter, that bobs on 128 empty two-liter soda bottles.

The intervention, according to SLO, “engages the river’s edge from the water’s perspective” and “traces new trajectories of urban life.”

Funded by a grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the floating, diaphanous orb was built to draw attention to the city’s waterways, particularly one of Manhattan’s last remaining salt marshes.

The firm and its team of volunteers fabricated the Buckminster Fuller–esque dome out of 450 recycled umbrellas.

Amy Wakeland prepares some of the fruits and vegetables that she regularly harvests from the backyard garden.

Construction pausing during the pandemic turned out to be a boon: Living in the half-finished space, the couple realized they needed to open up the pass-through to the rest of the house for even more circulation.

Flooring is 8” wide oak plank floors from Piet Boon flooring by Solidfloor.

The Seaweed and Bath Salts Set from L:A Bruket is comprised of natural materials harvested from Varberg, Sweden. Featuring dried serrated wrack seaweed that was hand-fished in Varberg, this bath set will provide a luxurious, relaxing, and natural retreat in the comfort of your own bathtub.

A trio of pastel colored pendants hang above wooden dining furniture inside Harvest.

A built-in bench at the entry provides storage—a boon, granted the home’s compact footprint.

A Fireclay-tiled second bathroom with Kerf cabinets is yet another boon of the extension.

The 58-unit building features custom millwork details, including built-in window seats, dining banquettes, and Piet Boon signature applied closet doors and frames.

Custom kitchen cabinetry with a stone countertop is made of the same ash wood sustainably harvested in Canada.

The Huys apartments come with electronically controlled solar shades with concealed window shade pockets and recessed lighting fixtures by Flos. Shown here, the living room of a two-bedroom unit.

A 3,000-liter rainwater harvesting tank is located beneath the rear deck, which is made from spotted gum with an oiled finish.

Many tiny home dwellers develop eco-friendly habits when they downsize—like adopting a capsule wardrobe, carpooling more, and harvesting rainwater.

The wood inside was harvested from the local forest. Anders’s favorite spot in the home is the sofa situated under an almond tree in the greenhouse.

The 510 Cabin is one of Leggitt's designs, executed with the help of student apprentices.

Inspired by Russian and Finnish designs, the fireplace harvests hot air by sending it into the basement and radiating it into the room. - Tehachapi Mountains, California Dwell Magazine : November / December 2017

Piet Boon designed the leather banquette shown here specifically for his Huys project. For more on Boon's furniture design, visit the first-floor gallery at 404 Park Avenue South. The ceilings are 11'5" tall and feature original beams that have been painted over in a cool white.

The kitchen of model unit 6C at Huys, 404 Park Avenue South, designed by Piet Boon with Karin Meyn. The kitchen sports white lacquer cabinetry by Bulthaup with a Chambolle marble countertop, Dornbracht fixtures, and Miele appliances.

Suzanne Shelton built a "little cottage to get away to" on Tennessee's Norris Lake that's equipped with both rainwater-harvesting and solar-power systems for off-the-grid living.

Inside Vora Santorini, you’ll find Zirini ceramics, Piet Boon fixtures, Gascoigne and Vasaltis marble, Ceppo di Grey stone, Trizzo and WM lighting, and Bang and Olufsen sound. "All of it is naturally embraced by the traditional, white interior walls and the black volcanic rocks of Santorini," says Bellonias.

The cover of Murakami Versailles.

A neighbor harvests bell peppers in the garden.

A live edge bench, harvested from the site, balances the carved door of the bathroom on the opposite end of the entry/mudroom.

The sliding screens are made from locally harvested teak.

The wood for the home was harvested and dressed from Bello's property.

The dining table and chairs in the kitchen were handcrafted by the homeowner from timber harvested on-site.

Harvest Boon-In the eastern Netherlands, resourceful recyclers 2012Architects have built a house almost entirely out of locally sourced scrap, from old billboards to broken umbrellas. The cabinetry in the kitchen and elsewhere is crafted from discarded, chopped-up billboards. White paint camouflages their fronts, but when pulled open, their colorful sides offer a glimpse of their previous life as streetside advertising. Photo by: Mark Seelen