Chestnuts once reigned supreme over the eastern hardwood forests, not just because they were the biggest and most abundant ...

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Learn about small-scale wool processing and how to process raw wool and fleece by caring for and storing it correctly.

A hybrid is simply two different plant varieties crossed for specific reasons. You can save the seeds produced by these, contrary to what you may have heard. It’s just more complicated than ...

Stop bending to the will of the seasons with this year round hoop house. It’ll keep an ideal temperature so your crops will be growing strong in the harshest of winters.

My wife, Mary Jane, and I built our first earthbag home in 2009, after being inspired by the Mother Earth News book Earthbag Building. Our circular house was 20 feet in diameter and incorporated a ...

Learn how to use mulch to cut down on weeding and heavy labor in your garden by using the Ruth Stout gardening method.

Where do seeds come from? Seed catalogue owners demystify the seed manufacturing process and give opinions on the reasons for the continuing seed shortage.

The Possibility Alliance was created by Ethan Hughes and his family to teach anybody and everybody about how to live a more simple and meaningful life. The 80-acre homestead in La Plata, Mo., is ...

What should you know about food, farming and the meat you eat? Farmer and writer Joel Salatin sounds off on government regulations, pasture-based farming and more.

Follow these step-by-step instructions to build an earth-sheltered greenhouse that uses passive solar gain.