Infrastructure

Understanding and Exploring the Role of Balance in Our Relationship with the Natural World is a critical 21st Century skill.

The Origin Story of Mezzacello as told by Rick. Who would buy a property in the city and then adapt it completely to another use?

Rick and I had been searching for a house in Old Towne East (a downtown residential neighborhood in Columbus, OH) for a few years. We talked about what we wanted to do with a house, and what it would be…

This was our original inspiration for starting Mezzacello. We had vision, but no funds. Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson

Urban Farm, urban problems vandals, theft and working out the path of sustainability and ecosystems. We rebuild and keep working.

What do you do with two vacant lots a low budget, and big dreams. You build and plan! Oh and rebuild the house as well.

Water is one of the holy trinity of resources in an urban ecosystem, alongside biomass, and flora and fauna.

A big hole, bigger dreams, some resources, disasters, and a summer later, we have a pond. And there were ducks.

In place composting like you see in nature on the forest floor. A lasagna garden. That is this lesson.

German for Hill Culture, this ancient form of permaculture transforms lifeless, heavy clay dirt into a forest floor and captures CO2.