When do winesap apples ripen? Learn about growing winesap apples and how to make apple pie from scratch for a spectacular ...

Build a double cattle-panel greenhouse with plans and a material list to extend your growing season, start plants weeks ...

Learn about perennial Kernza grain nutrition, benefits, and how and when to graze livestock in an intermediate wheatgrass field. In 2023, during one of the worst droughts I’ve ever experienced in the ...

Dehydrate and grind sunflower seeds for gluten-free flour. Learn about seed flours for baking recipes, including how to make sunflower seed flour, pumpkin seed flour nutrition, and how to cook acorns.

Find root cellar alternatives to store more, waste less, and enjoy fresh garden vegetables for months — without digging a ...

Discover regenerative backyard gardening to build soil, capture carbon, and grow more food with a permaculture approach, cover cropping, perennial plantings, companion planting, living mulches, and ...

Kathy forms the weave of the trellis. Learn how to make a willow obelisk and discover willow’s natural healing properties, the climate-friendly habitat it can provide, and the wisdom offered by the ...

Remaining on-grid made sense for this solo homesteader, but learn how to build an off-grid cabin on a budget to keep those features in a small cabin. In terms of home energy systems, “off-grid” and ...

Process food in bulk with a pressure canner. Tap into the self-sufficiency of pressure canning with these pressure canning soup recipes. One of my earliest and fondest memories was standing on a chair ...

Building a barn is a hands-on education in problem solving and self-reliance. Meet your livestock’s needs on a budget with these sheep housing design ideas to build a DIY sheep barn. We farm a little ...

Sage left behind by the previous occupant grows vigorously, even in this shady spot. Looking for space-saving vegetable garden ideas? You don’t have to wait until you’re settled to start gardening.

Complexity is a product of building the system over years. Chiggers Stokes created DIY Hydropower for his remote off-grid cabin and learned hard lessons along the way. In July of 1978, on the Olympic ...