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Wash Your Organic Carrots!—Here’s Why

Farm Management
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Practice food safety by properly washing all fruits and vegetables (organic or not) before eating to minimize your exposure to pathogens and chemicals.

From ‘Selfie’ to ‘Healthie’ in 2014

Homesteading
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As a magazine staffer, it’s part of my job to keep afloat of new media trends ,and one most inescapable social media trends in 2013 was the "selfie,” which was named Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year.

Take Advantage of Free Compost

Crops & Gardening
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If you have a shovel and some buckets (or better still, a pickup truck), call your own municipality and ask if a pile of leaf compost is available to residents.

Beginning Farmer’s Guide to Self-Sufficiency

Beginning Farmers
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Before starting on your adventure to becoming a self-sufficient farmer, take a deep breath and follow these five bits of advice.

Why PDF Patterns are Wonderful

Homesteading
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It’s a new year and time to talk sewing again. I wanted to start off the new year by expounding on the virtues of PDF sewing patterns or e-patterns. Huh! What? Let me explain.

How to Maximize Your Elderberry Harvest

Crops & Gardening
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Reap the benefits of the elderberry bush by paying careful attention to the harvest of this plant.

Plant Your Weeds & Love Them, Too

Crops & Gardening
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It’s no secret: I'm an advocate for weeds. As soon as the first chickweed leaves are ready in the spring, I search for as many as I can greedily stuff into my mouth.

Orange Upside-down Cake

Urban Farming
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Photo by Judith Hausman This upside-down cake will turn a frown into a smile. Here’s a sweet for January. Not only does it use citrus in season, but it also is lighter and more sanctimonious than most cakes because January is the month of eaters’ remorse and diet resolutions. The cake is relatively lightly sweetened […]

Hood on the Range

Homesteading
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A range hood is necessary in every kitchen that has a cooktop, not just for alleviating those smoky mishaps but also for removing excess moisture, grease, gases and fumes.

How to Make Maple Syrup

Homesteading
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If you have sugar-maple sap at your disposal, transform it into delicious maple syrup for pancakes and more in three simple steps.

Grow, Evolve, Change: Nature’s Homesteading Lessons

Homesteading
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To move forward in life, every child must begin to evolve from the moment of conception, growing and changing until we thrust ourselves out into the world.

Live Harmoniously with Coyotes

Animals | Farm Management |
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While you must protect small animals on your farm from coyotes, remember that coyotes help control rodent pests in your area.

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