In this issue

BEGINNER’S PLUCK
A young couple gives up a condo in Chicago for a small farm outside the city, complete with a house to remodel and a cast of cute animals.

SECOND CHANCES
Don’t hang up your trowel yet. Now is the time to plant seeds for cool-crop vegetables like lettuce and radishes.

Studio Session

In their hometown of Kearney, Nebraska, Jeff and Teegan Nordhues are lighting up the design industry (literally). Their secrets? Mastery, tenacity, integrity and a proprietary blend of terra-cotta.

3 mins

Real Talk

Through colorful collage, Detroit artist Judy Bowman tells vibrant stories of the Black experience.

4 mins

prime time

Tapas on patios, spirited festivals, foliage shrouded museums: In Kansas City, Missouri, fall is a long, leisurely and resounding last hurrah to summer.

3 mins

refueling station

Forty strangers partake in a three-hour, chef-driven meal in an unlikely setting: a gas station in a Twin Cities suburb.

2 mins

deeply rooted

Plant-shop owner Cotto shares his top spots in Chicago's flourishing Logan Square neighborhood.

1 min

feeling grand

Calling all culinary aficionados: A weekend celebrating female talent beckons you to Mackinac Island this fall.

1 min

folk lore

In the early 1900s, artists and socialites traveled to an Illinois estate to unwind and create. Now you can, too, at the state's first folk school.

2 mins

BEGINNER'S PLUCK

A pair of condo dwellers from Chicago decamps to farm outside the city, trading dinner parties and oat milk a lattes for a life that moves at a at a walk.

3 mins

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