This summer, in collaboration with repurposed MATERIALS, we launched our Trash to Treasure photo contest and asked you all to ...

Want to get started growing American Chestnut trees? Learn how to start harvesting chestnuts at home and choose the best species for you. The majestic American chestnut tree was once common throughout ...

The ChickSafe Advance automatic chicken coop door opener is a tough and reliable system for automatically opening your coop door in the morning and closing it in the evening as light levels fall, ...

Linda B. White, M.D.

Author Cindy Conner displays the solar food dryers in her garden. Create a self sufficient homestead plan so you can enjoy local, homegrown food year-round while saving money and learning new skills.

Learn all about homemade elderberry syrup benefits and how to take elderberry syrup. Make this herbal remedy at home to help ease the symptoms of a cold or flu at a fraction of the cost of buying it ...

Learn how to engrave wood with burning to create a wood-burned cutting board that’ll make a striking and memorable keepsake.

This close-up through the polycarbonate shows the absorber screen, the foam sealer molding, screws with EPDM washers, battens and a bottom vent. After walking into my workshop one December morning and ...

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 ...

The best way to eat a fresh ‘Saturn’ peach surely is out of hand—as soon as you pick it. But you also can take your cue from Chinese royalty and transform delicious peaches into a tasty soup that can ...

With the sun's energy,this simple single-basin, passive-solar distiller can produce up to 4 gallons of purified water per day. Learn how to use passive solar water distillation to purify your drinking ...

The system takes water from near the bottom of a solar heat storage tank and pumps it through a collector — where it’s heated by the sun — and then back to the tank. This continues as long as there’s ...