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Learn how to juice chokecherries by following this old fashioned choke cherry jelly recipe using this tart, native North American fruit.

The Possibility Alliance was created by Ethan Hughes and his family to teach anybody and everybody about how to live a more simple and meaningful life. The 80-acre homestead in La Plata, Mo., is ...

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.

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 ...

Use a small pot still to make "eau de vie" (brandy) from your fruit wines and capture the flavor of ripe fruit.

Slugs, snails, crickets oh my! Join Miles Olson as he shares the ins and outs of gathering edible bugs for food.

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 ...

Follow these step-by-step instructions to build an earth-sheltered greenhouse that uses passive solar gain.

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

6 Natural Allergy Remedies 'Tis the season for sniffling, sneezing and itching. Breathe easier with these medically proven natural allergy remedies.

Here are step-by-step instructions of how to build a low tunnel. The end product will measure roughly 9’4″L x 3’W x 20″H, which I should note is one hoop shorter in length than the version ...