How to Grow a Living Fence Learn techniques and which shrubs or tree species are best for living fences to get them off to a good start.

Make the most of self-seeding plants for cottage gardens and self-sufficiency. These self-seeding vegetables, herbs and flowers can be coaxed into providing seeds season after season.

Read more from Mother Earth News on raising chickens. Browse our articles and blogs for gardening, homesteading, sustainability, farming, and more.

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

Learn about small-scale wool processing and how to process raw wool and fleece by caring for and storing it correctly.

With this novel technique, you can make earthbag buildings step by step to serve as a studio, garden shed, chicken coop, or root/storm cellar — no permit required!

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

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 ...