Chestnuts once reigned supreme over the eastern hardwood forests, not just because they were the biggest and most abundant ...

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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!

What should you know about food, farming and the meat you eat? Farmer and writer Joel Salatin sounds off on government regulations, pasture-based farming and more.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Excited to try permaculture on our country property, we planted a 1-acre permaculture orchard. Our new orchard contains tree fruit, berries and nitrogen-fixers.

?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 ...

Grain bins are a sturdy, inexpensive alternative-living option, and now Iowa company Sukup Manufacturing is making these unconventional houses more widely available.

Learn about oak tree and acorn facts, including the lifecycle of acorns, how acorns feed wildlife, nutrients in acorns and a list of oak tree varieties. Originally published as "Oak Acorns and You ...

Stop bending to the will of the seasons with this year round hoop house. It’ll keep an ideal temperature so your crops will be growing strong in the harshest of winters.