Learn how to make yucca shampoo right at home. Used extensively by native peoples, there are many yucca soap benefits including helping dandruff and hydrating your skin.

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.

From a homesteader who raises rabbits for both meat and leather, here are the basics of how to tan a rabbit hide. Like many modern homesteaders, I keep rabbits for meat. However, unlike most small ...

We were pleased to report in “ Homemade Motor Fuel Through Wood Gasification ” that our experiments concerning the use of wood scraps for vehicle motor fuel showed promise. But little did we ...

Learn 7 reasons to start building a beautiful inexpensive stone house. Stone houses are durable and sustainable homes that can last for centuries. Read more.

Learn everything you need to know about how to raise Coturnix quail. This quail is the best game bird for small spaces, so you can raise them in the city or countryside. The Japanese call the ...

Want to learn how to vermicompost? Start your DIY worm farm by sourcing your worms and building a worm bin for your little wriggling composters.

Profit from rainy days with a rainwater catchment system design that will collect and store your rainwater for future use on the homestead.

Can I freeze eggs? Learn how to preserve eggs, from how to freeze dry eggs to rehydrating them and freezing eggs in silicone forms. It’s frustrating to buy eggs from the store when our own hens ...

Last fall, MOTHER EARTH NEWS launched our Organic Pest Control Survey to learn more about the best organic pest control methods — and the not-so-great methods — when it comes to limiting ...

Use these plans to construct your own DIY root cellar. Cold storage is the best way to store potatoes and onions, and even certain fruit and leafy greens!

A beginner's guide to foraging for wild mushrooms and the world of fungi, including gilled, boletes, corals, cup fungi, polypores, puffballs and earthstars, stinkhorns, and tooth fungi.