Learn about milpa agriculture techniques, how to start a farmstand from home, build a hotbed from straw, sprout mung beans ...

A word of advice: invest in perennials, those bare-root raspberries, currants, and plums felt expensive when we first began.

Learn how to make walking sticks for a hobby by training a maple, crepe myrtle, or poplar tree into a spiral around a PVC support stake. Blaze new trails by making a walking stick from green wood that ...

It’s never been easier to pick up new skills to boost your independence and keep more money in your wallet while you’re at it. Let Mother Earth News show you how with hundreds of online learning ...

Follow these plans from 1977 to build a DIY outdoor chicken brooder. Start your chicks outside and foraging safely to keep your own pasture-raised chicks. Right now — while the ground is covered with ...

Learn how to felt wool and you can try out one of many ideas to upcycle sweaters into an array of useful household products and fun gifts — no sewing machine required! The following is an excerpt from ...

Make the most of self-seeding plants for cottage gardens and self-sufficiency. These self-seeding vegetables, herbs and flowers can be coaxed into providing seeds season after season. One of the ...

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For those who've taken the leap into organic gardening or are about to, an expert offers his recommendation for garden fertilizer. Originally published as "A Better Way to Fertilize Your Garden" in ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the biggest challenges in keeping chickens is figuring out how to build a chicken coop and pen that will allow your birds to forage while also keeping them safe from predators. Letting the ...