diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/style.css b/app/assets/stylesheets/style.css
index 0bf628d7a2..a13cb906be 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/style.css
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/style.css
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ a .fa-white,
   color: #666;
   clear:both;
   margin-top: 40px;
-  padding: 30px;
+  padding: 30px !important;
   border-top: 1px solid #E5E5E5;
   background-color: #f8f8f8;
 }
diff --git a/app/controllers/home_controller.rb b/app/controllers/home_controller.rb
index 7aefcbb6dd..5c99117c68 100644
--- a/app/controllers/home_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/home_controller.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ def home
     if current_user
       redirect_to '/dashboard'
     else
-      blog
+      @projects = Tag.find_nodes_by_type('project:featured', 'page')
+        .sample(3) # random sampling
       @title = I18n.t('home_controller.science_community')
       render template: 'home/home'
     end
@@ -13,7 +14,8 @@ def home
 
   # route for seeing the front page even if you are logged in
   def front
-    blog
+    @projects = Tag.find_nodes_by_type('project:featured', 'page')
+        .sample(3) # random sampling
     @title = I18n.t('home_controller.environmental_investigation')
     render template: 'home/home'
     @unpaginated = true
diff --git a/app/models/node.rb b/app/models/node.rb
index 950978f277..b4cc1c5280 100644
--- a/app/models/node.rb
+++ b/app/models/node.rb
@@ -275,15 +275,14 @@ def author
     User.find(uid)
   end
 
-  def coauthors
-    User.where(username: power_tags('with')) if has_power_tag('with')
-  end
-
-  # for wikis:
   def authors
     revisions.collect(&:author).uniq
   end
 
+  def coauthors
+    User.where(username: power_tags('with')) if has_power_tag('with')
+  end
+
   # tag- and node-based followers
   def subscribers(conditions = false)
     users = TagSelection.where(tid: tags.collect(&:tid))
@@ -312,6 +311,10 @@ def body
     latest&.body
   end
 
+  def summary
+    body.split('\n')&.first
+  end
+
   # was unable to set up this relationship properly with ActiveRecord associations
   def drupal_main_image
     DrupalMainImage.order('vid')
diff --git a/app/views/home/home.html.erb b/app/views/home/home.html.erb
index 896fdda04b..5ce0f302fa 100644
--- a/app/views/home/home.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/home/home.html.erb
@@ -1,18 +1,119 @@
-<div class="container">
-
 <% cache('feature_home-intro', skip_digest: true) do %>
   <%= feature("home-intro") %>
 <% end %>
 
-<div class="dashboard">
-  <% cache('home-blog', expires_in: 60.minutes, skip_digest: true) do %>
-    <div class="tab-pane active" id="notes">
-      <% unless @notes.nil? || @notes.length == 0 %>
-        <%= render partial: "notes/notes", locals: { paginated: false } %>
-        <p><center><a class="btn btn-outline-secondary" href="/blog">Read more</a></center></p>
+<div class="container">
+
+<div class="projects">
+  <% #cache('home-blog', expires_in: 60.minutes, skip_digest: true) do %>
+    <% unless @projects.nil? || @projects.length == 0 %>
+
+      <% @projects.each_with_index do |project, index| %>
+
+        <div class="row px-lg-5<%= " odd" if index.odd? %>">
+          <div class="col-6 col-xs-12 project-image <%= index.odd? ? " odd pr-lg-5 order-2" : " pl-lg-5" %>">
+
+            <a href="<%= project.path %>"><img src="<%= project.main_image %>" /</a>
+
+          </div>
+          <div class="col-6 col-xs-12<%= index.odd? ? " pl-lg-5" : " pr-lg-5" %>">
+
+            <h3><a href="<%= project.path %>"><%= project.title %></a></h3>
+
+            <p><%= project.summary %></p>
+
+            <p><a href="<%= project.path %>">Read more &raquo;</a></p>
+
+            <div class="people">
+              <!-- people most associated with it? editors? pinnable? -->
+              <!-- replace authors with 'featured people' or something? -->
+<!--
+              <% project.authors[0..2].each do |author| %>
+                <% if author.photo %>
+                  <a class="person" href="/profile/<%= author.username %>">
+                    <img class="person-image" src="<%= author.photo %>" />
+                  </a>
+                <% end %>
+              <% end %>
+
+              <% if project.authors.length > 2 %>
+                <span class="person person-text">
+                  <span class="text"><%= [project.authors.length - 2, 1].max %> more</span>
+                </span>
+              <% end %>
+-->
+            </div>
+
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
       <% end %>
-    </div>
-  <% end %>
+
+      <p><center><a class="btn btn-outline-secondary" href="/projects">More projects</a></center></p>
+
+    <% end %>
+  <% # end %>
 </div>
 
 </div>
+
+<style>
+
+.projects {
+  width: 100%;
+  position: absolute;
+  left: 0;
+  padding: 40px 20px;
+}
+.projects .row {
+  padding: 50px 20px;
+  color: #222;
+  background: #ffe8c8; 
+}
+.projects .row.odd {
+  background: white;
+}
+.projects .row .project-image img {
+  background: #ccc; 
+}
+.projects .row h3 {
+  color: #333;
+  padding-bottom: 10px;
+}
+.projects .row h3 a {
+  color: #333;
+  text-decoration: none;
+}
+.projects .row a {
+  color: #333;
+  text-decoration: underline;
+}
+.projects .person {
+  background: #efc997;
+  float: left;
+  display: inline-block;
+  border-radius: 20px;
+  min-width: 40px;
+  height: 40px;
+  margin-right: 5px;
+}
+.projects .person-image {
+  border-radius: 20px;
+  height: 40px;
+  width: 40px;
+}
+.projects .person-text {
+  padding: 5px;
+}
+.projects .person .text {
+  color: #884d05;
+  padding: 3px 8px;
+  display: inline-block;
+}
+
+</style>
+
+<% cache('feature_home-footer', skip_digest: true) do %>
+  <%= feature("home-footer") %>
+<% end %>
+
diff --git a/public/photos/original/missing.png b/public/photos/original/missing.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0855f90c41
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diff --git a/test/fixtures/node_tags.yml b/test/fixtures/node_tags.yml
index 4f1468e359..674ab1df28 100644
--- a/test/fixtures/node_tags.yml
+++ b/test/fixtures/node_tags.yml
@@ -189,3 +189,13 @@ test3_lon:
   uid: 16
   nid: 25
   date: <%= DateTime.now.to_i %>
+
+project:
+  tid: 28
+  uid: 1
+  nid: 13
+
+project2:
+  tid: 28
+  uid: 1
+  nid: 7
diff --git a/test/fixtures/tags.yml b/test/fixtures/tags.yml
index c6c66b818b..bde654e051 100644
--- a/test/fixtures/tags.yml
+++ b/test/fixtures/tags.yml
@@ -107,3 +107,7 @@ balloon:
 place:
   tid: 27
   name: place
+
+project:
+  tid: 28
+  name: project
diff --git a/test/unit/node_test.rb b/test/unit/node_test.rb
index d3eb32e31a..71c7e79189 100644
--- a/test/unit/node_test.rb
+++ b/test/unit/node_test.rb
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ def setup
     assert_equal 1, node.status
     assert !node.answered
     assert_equal [], node.location_tags
+    assert node.body
+    assert node.summary
   end
 
   test 'basic question attributes' do
@@ -513,6 +515,13 @@ def setup
     # assert_equal wiki, graph_wiki.values.sum
   end
 
+  # node.authors should be anyone who's written a revision for this node (a wiki, presumably)
+  test 'authors' do
+    authors = Node.last.authors
+    assert authors
+    assert_equal 1, authors.length
+  end
+
   test 'find by tagname and user id' do
     # Should test for each type of node: wiki, notes, questions
     assert_equal 'Chicago', Node.find_by_tag_and_author('chapter', 1, 'wiki').first.title