Cultivated ground, from vegetable patches to accidental palaces.

A road inspector for Le Corbusier's rationally planned Chandigarh spent eighteen years cycling into a protected forest after work to build a secret twelve-acre kingdom of gods and goddesses out of smashed pottery, broken bangles, and discarded toilet bowls.

What do you do when you buy ten acres of California sunshine and discover it's a slab of rock at 120 degrees?