Our DIY Greenhouse Readiness Audit removes the guesswork. In just 3 minutes, this assessment evaluates your winter solar ...

Linda B. White, M.D.

If you run a small farm and own any draft animal, a horse-drawn sled can help you get more work done. Here’s how to build a horse-drawn work sled. Here in Quebec, we’ve found our easy-to-build ...

This close-up through the polycarbonate shows the absorber screen, the foam sealer molding, screws with EPDM washers, battens and a bottom vent. After walking into my workshop one December morning and ...

You don't have to grow up on a farm to become a chicken-raising, denim-donning, goat-hugging homesteader. Mix one go-getter family, acreage with good soil, and a farmhouse outfitted with a small wind ...

Architect: Stephen Lane, Lawrence, Kan.

Spoiled or regular hay, straw, leaves, pine needles, sawdust, weeds, and garbage are great for mulch — or any vegetable matter that rots. ‘Mulch Queen’ Ruth Stout claimed to have smashed saloons with ...

Discover regenerative backyard gardening to build soil, capture carbon, and grow more food with a permaculture approach, cover cropping, perennial plantings, companion planting, living mulches, and ...

Whether as a studio, garden shed, chicken coop, or something else entirely, an earthbag building is adaptable. With this novel technique, you can make earthbag buildings step by step to serve as a ...

Over the course of the growing season, a yacon bush will reach 6 to 8 feet in height with giant showy leaves and small yellow flowers, making it a nice ornamental backdrop plant. To save yacon from ...

Many mushrooms can be used to make paper, especially the tougher inedible species that are often overlooked. Polypores are often used since they have a high fiber content, persist a long time in the ...

I recently came across a “Seeds Explained” infographic stating, “Seeds from first-generation plants can’t be saved and planted”. That’s not exactly true. You can save and grow hybrids (a cross between ...