Turning deer and other animal skins into leather, as I described in the October/November 2016 issue, can lead to the creation of warm and durable clothing, including coonskin caps. The following ...

Learn tips and customize your walipini construction to ensure a durable, long-lasting, and productive walipini style greenhouse. In the 1990s, a philanthropic arm of the Mormon Church called the ...

If you’re interested in having fresh spinach, lettuce, chard, or any other cold-hardy crop on hand late into winter or early in spring, you should build a low tunnel or two (also called a mini hoop ...

Wood gas trucks! From left: ’95 Dodge Ram 2500 V10; ’84 Ford F250 V8; ’93 Dodge Dakota V8; ’92 Dakota V8 (conversion in progress). Back in 2004, Wayne Keith drew a line in the sand at $1.50. That’s ...

I recently came across a “Seeds Explained” infographic stating, “Seeds from first-generation plants can’t be saved and planted”. That’s not exactly true. You can save and grow hybrids (a cross between ...

Whether as a studio, garden shed, chicken coop, or something else entirely, an earthbag building is adaptable. With this novel technique, you can make earthbag buildings step by step to serve as a ...

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 ...

Simple: Build more — and bigger — hoophouses a whole lot sooner, like from the beginning. Whether you’re a market gardener wanting to extend your season or a family looking to grow more of your own ...

I love a plant that is beautiful, provides several different tasty ingredients, and is easy to harvest in ways that allow the plant to replenish. Daylily is one of those plants. Daylily (Hemerocallis ...

Eric Stromberg: [00:00:00] A few reasons to keep roosters on the farm. Some people like the actual noise that they crow and they make a lot of people will keep a rooster as kind of that first line of ...

At the heart of herbalism is one’s understanding of and connection with the plants. There are many ways to foster this, from personal experience and traditional wisdom to book study and scientific ...

Dirt is the original DIY material. In cultures all over the world, people have used earth to fashion everything from bowls to buildings. We know this because so many earthen homes are still around, ...