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  If you are looking for a tasty, calorie-dense wild food, you can’t go wrong with hickory nuts. The sweet, fatty raw meat of a hickory nut can be eaten right out of its hard shell or cooked. The nuts ...

  If you are looking for an inexpensive way to make a variety of wood projects on your homestead, look no further than shipping pallets. Many large retailers and distribution centers will let you haul away wood pallets they cannot ...

Did you know that the United States, per capita, spends more than twice the average of other developed countries on health care? Research by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reveals that this higher spending likely is driven by ...

Shipping containers have everything you need to build a home, according to Adam Hellicar of Honey Box, Inc., a Canadian company that specializes in container box architecture. They even can be used to build a fully off-grid container home on ...

Part hobo, part hobbit and part trendsetter, Dan Price was living the tiny house lifestyle long before the tiny house movement gained momentum. A professional news photographer for 10 years, Price says he began his search for a simple lifestyle ...

  After studying construction technology in college, Jordan decided to focus on sustainable building. Initially discounting earthship building as “pretty out there,” he came back to the idea after doing some more research. Wanting to see “what it was all ...

Whether you are purchasing it for long-term emergency storage or just for your kitchen pantry, you may wonder how long sugar will last. Well, the answer can be “indefinitely” if sugar is stored correctly. The package of sugar you buy ...

Ah, the timing of nature. Each summer, I wait patiently for the delicious bounty from my tomato plants, and each autumn as temperatures start to tumble, I am left with many healthy green tomatoes on my vines. If you experience ...

Whether it’s the wind of a severe thunderstorm in the summer, the weight of an ice storm in the winter or even a traffic accident that takes down a power line, you can experience a power outage any time of ...

When they consider Thomas Jefferson, many Americans first think of him as the author of the Declaration of Independence or as our nation’s third president, who was responsible for the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark expedition. However, Jefferson’s ...