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Avoiding Botulism When Canning Food

In the garden

Rhubarb: The Garden’s Tart Treat

By Charles Sanders Rhubarb is a perennial vegetable that is used as a fruit. It is known scientifically as Rheum rhabarbarum and is a relative...

Ten Of The Most Nutritious Herbs

Fruits For The Far North

Gardening After Sixty

Grow Your Own Salad Greens

In the workshop

Composting with worms

How To Make Carved Wooden Bowls

Knife Sharpening: The Coarse Truth About A Fine Skill

A Quickly-Made, Cheap Minnow Trap

In the self-reliant home

Storing Food The Right Way

Practical Prepping

I decided for my own family that I wanted to take a more practical approach to preparing. I don’t call it prepping, I prefer to look at it as living a sustainable, yet useful life.

A Few Tips For Cutting Firewood

Chuck Klein There are only two economical, exciting, expeditious, and fun methods of cutting firewood: one is with a chainsaw, the other is … we’ll...