Make the best homemade skincare gifts with everyday flowers and herbs, creating natural balms, lotions, and salves.

Cob construction has been used for thousands of years, but modern building codes have yet to catch up. Ziggy Liloia was the lead builder of this cob cottage at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in Missouri.

A particularly invasive weed, yellow nutsedge is edible, and you can eat it raw, roasted, boiled or candied. Nutsedge has gotten a bad rap, but for good reason. This pesky weed has been known to ...

From a homesteader who raises rabbits for both meat and leather, here are the basics of how to tan a rabbit hide. You probably know that tanning (which is also called tawing or pickling) is the ...

Wondering about the cost to build an off-grid home? How much does it cost to start a homestead? This young couple started a homestead in the country and are documenting their expenses every step of ...

An ancient Old World grass that resembles corn, sorghum is cultivated and used as a grain in most of the world. It has been a key ingredient in Southern baked goods, confections, glazes, and dressings ...

These tasty lacto-fermented green cherry tomato pickles are not only tasty but are a solution to preserving the prolific little cherry tomatoes. Even the smallest garden — as in a few pots on a sunny ...

Prepare with winter-care basics for farm dogs working hard in cold weather, especially livestock guardians who need to protect their charges day and night. Winter is coming and with it lots of ...

When are persimmons ripe? Learn when to pick persimmons, how to preserve persimmons, and how to dry persimmons into delicious fruit leather. From mid-September, through Christmas and into the new year ...

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 ...

I have an old bored well on my property, but the windmill and pump are long gone. How can I pull water from the well without grid power? If you want to hand pump water, Bison deep well hand pumps, ...

Triple the length of your growing season — and explore underground gardening — with this simple, energy-efficient earth-sheltered greenhouse design. Ninety frost-free days here in the mountains of ...