Check on the health of your herd daily, especially since yaks tend to hide signs of illness. What is yak meat? Is there a market for yak cheese and yak fiber? Read all you need to know about raising ...

Remaining on-grid made sense for this solo homesteader, but learn how to build an off-grid cabin on a budget to keep those features in a small cabin. In terms of home energy systems, “off-grid” and ...

Learn how to eradicate jumping worms, what to look for to identify them, and where you might find them hitching a ride. You may have heard of lionfish in the Atlantic Ocean and Burmese pythons in the ...

Explore heirloom carrot varieties, with tips for planting and their history, from Heirloom Vegetable Gardening by William Woys Weaver. Heirloom Vegetable Gardening by William Woys Weaver is the ...

With this easy hot sauce recipe you can approximate one of the world’s tastiest hot sauces, Tabasco sauce, right in your home kitchen. A simple hot sauce recipe. You’ve no doubt seen the iconic ...

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 ...

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Wondering what to do with pressed flowers? Create your own DIY oshibana art by learning how to press flowers with a book or paper. Oshibana (押し花) is the Japanese art of using pressed flowers and other ...

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If you have experience sewing thick fabric, you shouldn’t have any trouble sewing rabbit fur. Gain tips on how to sew rabbit fur for projects and clothing. Working with thin leather, such as rabbit ...

Avoid power-outage droughts by learning how to add a hand pump to an electric well to be able to access water even when the power is out. A few years back, a severe ice storm knocked out my family’s ...