Many drinks we call tea are correctly known as tisanes. Here's how to grow your own tea plant and harvest its leaves to make delicious beverages.
Herbs can often help calm muscles, tendons and ligaments, as well as soothe the body’s pains. Here's a selection of our favorites.
This herb is a flavoring agent for gum, candy and toothpaste, but it also has medicinal uses via tea and infused oils. You can grow wintergreen yourself.
Alice Percy provides detailed instructions for humanely raising pigs on pasture in a book that's valuable to homesteader and commercial farmer alike.
Whether you want to pour yourself a cup of catnip tea or make your kitty a catnip-stuffed toy, this is one versatile purr-ennial.
Honeysuckle can be invasive and overtake native plants, but you can help control populations of the shrub with these DIY projects.
Five women farmers over 50 share insight about their experiences in life and agriculture. In this second segment, the topic is money.
Chef and farmer Abra Berens provides hundreds of recipes to cook vegetables in unexpected ways as well as knowledge on growing and storage.
A loom made of cardboard and string can help youngsters understand the importance and beauty of wildflowers in your farm's ecosystem.
YouTube is a great source to learn small-scale farming techniques from experienced growers. Here are four channels with especially high-quality farm videos.
A chicken-keeper, homesteader and author turns from prose to poetry in his new book on living the farm life, "99½ Homesteading Poems."
Violets are an incredibly useful plant whose flowers and leaves are used in multiple healing remedies. Here's how to make lip balm from violet leaves.
