1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (762+ words) Loving Your Land Mother Earth News When I first moved to the farm, the land didn’t know me, and I didn’t love the land. Older farmers talked about such a thing: gazing out over a field of lush corn or…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (458+ words) Discover regenerative backyard gardening to build soil, capture carbon, and grow more food with a permaculture approach, cover cropping, perennial plantings, companion planting, living mulches, and crop rotation. Though we can only see the aboveground parts, plants represent much more…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (453+ words) Artificial intelligence in herbal medicine can be unpredictable if given the wrong advice; learn how to vet the source and assess the quality of advice. I see a lot of herbal information on social media and online, some of it…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (706+ words) A further point to remember about these attractive plants is that many hybrids have been developed to further enhance their aesthetics and improve their manageability. However, such hybrids are, of course, non-natives and often don’t fill the same ecological niches…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (342+ words) The land gives early signals – grasses dry out, soil loses moisture, brush turns brittle. Living on a canyon like we do adds its own challenges. What feels like still air on the rim accelerates once it drops into a canyon…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (274+ words) Find the best foods to dehydrate for snacks, including a zucchini chips recipe, a raw fruit leather dehydrator recipe, or make your own seasoning for soup season. Dehydrating young zucchini removes water, letting the natural sweetness shine. Light oils help…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (177+ words) Tackle high intensity gardening to grow more food in small spaces with these tiny gardening ideas, and create a productive growing system. Despite such differing approaches, both sets of techniques deliver high-yielding food gardens thanks to four common features, all…...

1+ year, 4+ day ago   (506+ words) Many of us have been taught the maxim “If in doubt, toss it out.” I find that to be a bad guide, as it’s easy to feel “doubt” based on how motivated we’re feeling that day. I’d replace that, instead,…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (671+ words) Catch up on the environmental current events of 2026. Get news on sustainable communities, scientific findings, the push toward net-zero carbon emissions, and more. Brooks Lamb grew up in rural Tennessee, in a small agricultural community 50 miles south of Nashville. When…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (444+ words) 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 “on-grid” are often presented as…...