You could win an assortment of $300 of 100% organic and non-GMO veggie, flower, and herb seeds! The varieties are productive, beautiful, flavorful, unique, and reliable.

Canning produces flavorful, high-quality food that saves money, builds self-reliance and creates lifelong memories. Learn how to can today!

Eating grass-fed beef isn't just some affectation. The meat is healthier, and the perennial pastures on which cows feed build better soil and have lower carbon emissions than conventional cropland.

Planting, harvesting and saving heirloom beet and chard varieties and the cool history behind some of the rarest and oldest heirloom beets and chard.

This low-cost solar air heater plan lets you turn any south wall into a source of free heat. Originally published as "Build a Simple Solar Heater" in the December 2006/January 2007 issue of MOTHER ...

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.

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

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Build an Affordable, Portable and Predator-Proof Chicken Coop Portable chicken coops (also called “pasture pens”) work especially well if you keep only a few hens. This coop has an open bottom ...

Holy Basil is an herbaceous plant in the mint family that is native to South Asia. It grows throughout lowland regions of India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, southern China, Thailand, and ...

In this episode of the Mother Earth News and Friends podcast, John Metzer and Stephen Horst offer advice on incubating guinea, goose, and duck eggs..

Grow a profusion of pollen- and nectar-rich blooms by companion planting flowers and vegetables to boost pollination, control pests, and provide color. In the 1970s, when I was a budding landscape ...