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For thousands of years, cultures around the world have sown, grown and harvested crops with nothing more than hard work and local resources. But in the 1950s, that began to change. New hybrid plants were introduced, along with synthetic fertilizers ...

Most Americans are familiar with the old adage “waste not, want not,” but as a nation we certainly do not follow it. Americans are guilty of throwing away 40 percent of the food – a whopping $165 billion worth — ...

It’s a water heater. And it’s also a compost pile. That’s correct, compost: that same pile of decomposing organic material you’re naturally accumulating from your own backyard homesteading operation. While you’re probably well aware that keeping the sweet-spot ratio of ...

Cultivating a vegetable garden is an important part of becoming self-sufficient. When a disaster strikes, the food grown in that garden can literally make the difference between life and death for the family. That’s why starting a garden now, before ...

Could proposed rules by the FDA end up shutting down organic farms nationwide if they don’t abandon their all-natural practices? That’s what the head of an organization that supports independent family farms believes, and it’s the subject of this week’s ...

Gardening is more or less a continuous affair with just a small break during the coldest of cold days of winter. Even the plants and wild animals go to sleep then, but often after an elaborate ritual of preparation. Likewise, ...

The lifestyle that is self-sufficiency encompasses a huge array of different aspects. For some people, a life of self-sufficiency is a life of survival. Perhaps they are striving to create a sustainable, safe life in the event of crisis. Other ...

That yellow fluid we all flush down the toilet, it turns out, isn’t just useless “wastewater.” When Vermont environmentalists Kim Nace and Abraham Noe-Hays released their findings on the benefits of urine in agriculture earlier this year, farmers and gardeners ...

Americans are obsessed with coffee. According to research last year by the National Coffee Association, nearly 83 percent of American adults drink coffee, up from 78 percent the previous year. The average coffee drinker drinks two cups a day, and ...

Plants devour richly organic composting soil like humans do a juicy red apple or thick sirloin steak. Composting not only allows farmers and gardeners the ability to have ample amounts of healthy rich soil on hand for free, but it ...