Each week during the growing season, volunteers fill what’s lovingly called “The Sharing Fridge” with fresh organic produce ...

Find the best farm animals for beginners among heritage livestock breeds. Pick a pig, get a goat, decide on a donkey, and ...

Uses for witch hazel span the pollinator and human world. It's a crucial food source for pollinators late in the year, and it's approved for use as a base in skin care products.

Explore this heirloom potato varieties list and decide which are the best heirloom potatoes to plant in your garden.. Heirloom Vegetable Gardening by William Woys Weaver is the culmination of some ...

Learn how to build a cabin with a loft in the woods with these DIY cabin plans. Realize your cabin dream by building a cabin yourself for about $6,500. Rays of early-morning sunlight gently peek ...

Learn how to grow sprouts anywhere and on the go, as well as delicious, healthy, and flexible alfalfa sprout recipes from author Gay Courter. “I’m convinced,” says Gay Courter, “that sprouts do ...

Learn nut tree identification and nut identification for acorns, beechnuts, chestnuts and chinquapins, black walnuts, butternuts, hickory nuts, pecans, and pine nuts. For centuries we humans have ...

Looking for ideas for homemade Christmas gifts? Save money and reduce waste by giving practical presents from the heart, everything from baking bread to a night of stargazing.

Adapt to the natural rhythm of solar abundance and scarcity while living off-grid in California. Learn to live by the sun ...

Follow these tips to construct a wood stove hot water coil heating kit and save on utility bills. Includes a diagram and wood stove water heater plans you can set up in your own house. One of the ...

Learn how to dehydrate food with a dehydrator for long-term food storage. You can make a DIY food dehydrator powered by the sun, a stove, or electricity. When I first took up self-­reliant coun­try ...

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 ...