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Enter to win Ambrosia Produce Bags and keep your fruits and veggies fresher for longer. These eco-friendly bags save you money and reduce food waste. Enter for a chance to win your very own.
Learn how to nixtamalize corn, nixtamalization history, and why this process creates more nutrition for us to absorb.
How does rat poison work? What should I do if my dog ate rat poison? Get tips on how to control rodents while keeping your pets safe and healthy.
Learn how to build a sawdust stove for an efficient and clean burn while fueled by a material typically discarded as waste. Here is how to create one.
Take advantage of healing jewelweed with this poison ivy soap recipe. Luckily, jewelweed identification is easy, so try foraging for it yourself!
Learn how to make yucca shampoo right at home. Used extensively by native peoples, there are many yucca soap benefits including helping dandruff and hydrating your skin.
3D-Printed Charkha Spinning Wheel One spinning enthusiast is using modern methods to carry on timeless techniques, and building a home-based business in the process.
Where do seeds come from? Seed catalogue owners demystify the seed manufacturing process and give opinions on the reasons for the continuing seed shortage.
Make this portable solar cooker DIY project that also doubles as a solar still! DIY solar panel cookers can be built to fold up and go where you need them.
Choose varieties and types of lettuce that are hardy and fast-growing, to get harvests quickly, early in the year. Grow lettuce as transplants to get the earliest results.
Construct a Secure Storm Shelter Stay safe when tornadoes or high winds hit your area with this severe-weather shelter that can be added to a garage or basement.
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.