Can you solve Fall Ferments? ? Click through clues, test your kitchen know-how, and beat the 3-minute timer to unlock tips, ...

Fallen hickory nuts can be gathered and pressed into a fresh and delicious oil. Learn about the Carya cordiformis, AKA the Yellowbud hickory tree. Get to know the hickory tree leaf, its bark, where it ...

A particularly invasive weed, yellow nutsedge is edible, and you can eat it raw, roasted, boiled or candied. Nutsedge has gotten a bad rap, but for good reason. This pesky weed has been known to ...

Learn how to make hard apple cider at home using this guide. Includes a delicious sparkling hard cider recipe for those of us who enjoy bubbles!

Prepare with winter-care basics for farm dogs working hard in cold weather, especially livestock guardians who need to protect their charges day and night. Winter is coming and with it lots of ...

Follow these tips to construct a wood stove hot water coil heating kit and save on utility bills. Includes a diagram and wood stove water heater plans you can set up in your own house. One of the ...

Read more from Mother Earth News on garden planning. Browse our range of articles and ideas on garden planners and get your project going today.

Use this comprehensive checklist of important papers to keep in case of emergency on hand in a binder, ready to go at a drop of a hat. In the interest of full disclosure, I should tell you that I ...

Like beekeeping, hydroponic gardening was another one of MOTHER's summer seminars. Indeed, in its heyday, the magazine functioned almost like an open-air university. Early in 1978 an advertisement ...

From a homesteader who raises rabbits for both meat and leather, here are the basics of how to tan a rabbit hide. You probably know that tanning (which is also called tawing or pickling) is the ...

Discover the hidden flavors of the city with Los Angeles urban foraging. Find inspiration for gleaning fruit, wild greens, and other edibles in cities and other urban environments. Los Angeles is one ...

Triple the length of your growing season — and explore underground gardening — with this simple, energy-efficient earth-sheltered greenhouse design. Ninety frost-free days here in the mountains of ...