Learn tips and customize your walipini construction to ensure a durable, long-lasting, and productive walipini style greenhouse. In the 1990s, a philanthropic arm of the Mormon Church called the ...

Join Sandra Oddo as she shares a variety of tips and tricks for making wine at home using elderflowers and elderberries. Our favorite way to make elderflower wine at home — and we’ve tried five or six ...

Use this comprehensive emergency binder checklist to have everything ready in case of emergencies. Preparing an emergency documents binder can save time and heartache down the line. In the interest of ...

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 ...

Ninety frost-free days here in the mountains of Idaho close to the Canadian border are not enough to raise most vegetable crops. For several years, I watched in frustration as my tomato and corn crops ...

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 ...

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 ...

What’s the difference between hybrids and genetically modified (GM) vegetable varieties? The term “hybrid,” which you’ll often see in seed catalogs, refers to a plant variety developed through a ...

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 ...

Living in a simple, secure grain bin home is far from corny. Unconventional houses can take many forms — think cob, straw bale and underground homes — and now we can add grain bin homes to the list of ...

Two items that we seem to buy every week from the grocery store are cream cheese and sour cream. Why I haven’t already started making these myself sooner is beyond me. Most likely because I didn’t ...

King Hammurabi of Babylonia enacted the first known building codes. The first known written building code was enacted by King Hammurabi in Babylon in 1758 B.C. Literally written in stone, the harsh ...