Red onions provide maximum nutrition and are excellent additions to a garden. Learn how to grow the most nutrient-dense vegetables by starting with healthy soil to get the nutrients needed to produce ...

Learn how to build a sawdust stove for an efficient and clean burn while fueled by a material typically discarded as waste. Here is how to create one. As we who live in the industrialized nations of ...

Jewelweed’s medicinal uses are well-known by many traditional cultures. You, too, can take advantage of this healing plant with this poison ivy soap recipe. And luckily, jewelweed identification is ...

Build your own collapsible spinning wheel for spinning your own cotton thread. Print your own parts with the Thingverse plans below and learn how to make a charkha spinning wheel. After buying my ...

Where do seeds come from? Seed catalogue owners demystify the seed manufacturing process and give opinions on the reasons for the continuing seed shortage. There is an audio version of this article ...

Check on the health of your herd daily, especially since yaks tend to hide signs of illness. What is yak meat? Is there a market for yak cheese and yak fiber? Read all you need to know about raising ...

Perhaps the most versatile item in the artisan herbalist’s arsenal is herb-infused oil. The diversity of potential applications, as well as the multitude of products into which infused oil can be ...

One way to contend with the smoke that home coffee roasting creates is to roast on a grill outside. For the most consistent roast, you can’t beat a home coffee-roasting machine. Next best is the ...

A well-built storm shelter — made with affordable, readily available lumber and materials — will be safe, solid, and secure. On average, more than 1,000 tornadoes touch down annually in the United ...

Maybe you hoped you could just drop your seed potato pieces in the ground, cover them over and wait for potatoes. More likely, you’d heard that you would need to hill your plants. Here I’ll explain ...

Cultivating oyster mushrooms on spent coffee grounds is a simple and enjoyable home activity for all ages, resulting in some good edible mushrooms to boot. If your home brewing doesn’t provide enough ...

The harvest from one yellow birch branch. As a child, I spent many afternoons scaling the white pines my father had planted in our backyard. Decades later, when I bought my first home, my dad set to ...