VISIT THE SITE
Click here for contact information, directions, and a map to MUD.
HOURS
M-F 1-4 PM or by appointment.
CLOSED weekends except for Tool Library hours and scheduled workshops or volunteer projects.

MUD's Sustainable Living Demonstration Site is a place of possibilities and ideas.
It began in 1976 as Wild Willy's Chicken Farm, and was a communal living, education and demonstration site during an era of severe economic concern. Thirty years later, the same principles of "do-it-yourself with others" sustainability are still vibrant and tangible. Today, the site exists to provide an urban backyard example of "what could be." Here, you can see "green" building construction, urban chickens, organic gardening, composting, native plant landscaping, use of salvaged materials, solar panel installations, wheelchair accessible gardens, greywater recycling and more.

Living and Working in One Place
Living and working in the same place reduces the amount of energy consumed, enhances people's relationships with a community and landscape, and shares work loads. As they did over 30 years ago, residents at MUD participate in the Demonstration Site by tending the gardens and chickens, harvesting and eating what is produced, and otherwise working to maintain the site. Residents also work with MUD's other programs, including the Workshop Series, Tool Library and Youth Education Program.
Click here for more information about MUD's Residence Program

COMPOST AT MUD
Worms/Vermicomposting:
MUD does not currently maintain worms at the demonstration site. If you are looking for a source for composting worms, contact the MUD office and we'll provide you with contact information for two reputable local distributors.
Dumping your compost:
Due to MUD's mission to demonstrate backyard-scale sustainability practices, we cannot accommodate compostable scraps from the public. Our composting system is managed as a backyard system, which only has capacity to deal with our own volume of organic matter.