The Healthy Lifestyle House & Accessible Gardens

05/29/2025

Germany is now farming electricity. Literally. Engineers and scientists at Fraunhofer ISE are teaming up with VOEN Vöhringer GmbH to take solar energy to the next level, by mounting solar panels right above crops.

It’s called agrivoltaics, and it's kind of genius. In one pilot site in Fronreute, cherry orchards now sit under elevated solar canopies that generate up to 420 kilowatts per hectare while keeping the fruit cool, protected from UV rays, hail, and heavy rain.

The best part is that the shade helps reduce irrigation, improves crop quality, and uses existing greenhouse setups, saving big on construction and emissions. Smart software ensures both crops and energy production thrive without stepping on each other's toes.

Early results show yields are just as good, if not better. This dual-harvest approach is catching on fast across Europe and Asia, with Germany and Japan leading the charge.

01/08/2025

07/05/2024

What an EPIC concept!!

04/26/2024

More of this concept please!!

11/12/2023

Mankato could do this

The purchase agreement for the Roof Depot site was tied to state funding for a new water supply maintenance facility in Minneapolis.

07/18/2023

Chairs can be reserved by calling the park ahead of time. Officials say while there is no cost to using the chair, those visiting the park will need a vehicle permit.

04/20/2023

Now imagine this handicap accessible, with a Braille site map and path markers🙏

This is what regenerative farming can look like. 🌺 🌿 🌸

This is a picture of the Eden Project in Cornwall, England. Unlike conventional monoculture planting, this polyculture system diversifies the soil life, making plants less susceptible to pests and disease.

Regenerative farming applies the Buddhist wisdom of pratītyasamutpāda (dependent origination) and inter-being to agriculture.

One could also describe this as aligning with the ecological wisdom of Nature, what some African cultures call "ubuntu" - the Indigenous wisdom that all LIFE is interdependently related as a whole, and thrives best as one family. 🌍 🌎 🌏

📸: Franie Treetops via Flickr

04/19/2023

“If you picture the city of the future, think less of smart tech, flying cars and skyscrapers; think more of cascading foliage, farms on flat roofs, rough urban meadows, and dense groves of forest. Cities are changing fast, as they always have done. The tendency in the twenty-first century will be for them to go greener, as a form of self defense if nothing else.” - Ben Wilson

08/13/2022

These raised gardens 🪴, thought up by a group of French designers, make gardening accessible for seniors and people in wheelchairs! 🫡♥️

12/10/2021

What if the gardens were accessible too?

Start Locally!

11/06/2021

Different and unique urban planing 😍🌲Copenhagen, Denmark
Photo by: [IG]

09/03/2021

THLH is a vision of creating an example or model for a more equitable healthy future for a broader range of people in our community.

Correcting Medicaid’s bias for institutionalization, instead of in-home care, requires an investment in home and community-based services that benefit seniors, people with disabilities, and the direct care workers who support them.