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 ...

With this novel technique, you can make earthbag buildings step by step to serve as a studio, garden shed, chicken coop, or root/storm cellar — no permit required!

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 ...

Using and Eating Piñon Pine Piñon Pine nuts are edible and were an important food for many Southwestern native tribes.

Most treadmills and stationary bikes use electricity, but what if you could produce electricity while exercising? With a pedal-power generator, you can! And you can use the electricity immediately ...

Gardening sustainably can be a fun, creative pursuit, and our reader tips will give you ideas for going beyond organic in your garden. You’ll learn ways to reuse and recycle materials in your ...

?Saturn' peaches are a tasty alternative to regular peach varieties. They have an unusually flat shape, and are named for their resemblance to the rings of Saturn. They're also called 'Donut' or ...

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

You make children's shoes constructed of materials you feel good about and that can have a shape to simulate being barefoot—and they are a bargain!