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By utilizing passive solar energy, our ancestors could use temperate differences to heat and cool their homes. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, right? And it is higher in the summer than in the winter. ...

Preserve fish is something a lot of fishermen don’t even consider. They may eat a lot of fish at certain times of the year but go without at other times. With all the different ways to preserve fish, you can ...

Beginning a new vegetable garden does not mean that one has to live on a large plot of land. Vegetable gardens are possible and doable in sectioned off backyards, and even in potted gardens kept on window sills and porches. ...

Who says you can’t grow a great variety of crops inside the comfort of your own home? For many urban and city dwellers, lack of an outside space can be a disheartening reality, and if there isn’t a community garden ...

Are you tired of looking out at a desolate and dead yard all winter long? This year, consider starting a winter garden!  Even though gardening is considered a summer hobby, the rewards don’t have to stop when the days get ...

As I sit down to write this article, I have just come in from doing the morning “chicken chores” with my three-year-old twin boys. My older son is taking out the trash and doing the morning egg run. My youngest ...

Have you ever been at a smoothie bar, scratching your head and wondering what wheatgrass was? Maybe you read an article or saw something on TV promoting how great wheatgrass was for you, but you couldn’t exactly figure out why ...

Fresh, green vegetables are essential for the health and well-being of every person in your family. Unfortunately though, most of the vegetables that you find at the supermarket are cultivated with the help of chemical based fertilizers, pesticides, hormones, and ...

Living off the grid means not relying on others. This includes your garden, which should be sustainable on its own—no fertilizer or pest controls in little plastic bottles from the store or colorful little packets from a Big Ag seed ...

One of the great benefits of raising your own livestock is control over what the animals are given and how they are raised.  There has been a flurry of new interest in meat and other animal products raised as “organic” ...