Turn Your Scraps into Spotlight-Worthy Creations! Got a knack for upcycling? We want to see how you’ve turned discarded materials into something useful, beautiful, or just plain genius.

Pick up tips from readers for building a small hatchery business, selling cut flowers, companion planting with calendula, DIY braided rugs, a cheap greenhouse, and a repurposed rake. With current ...

Complexity is a product of building the system over years. Chiggers Stokes created DIY Hydropower for his remote off-grid cabin and learned hard lessons along the way. In July of 1978, on the ...

Check on the health of your herd daily, especially since yaks tend to hide signs of illness. What is yak meat? Is there a market for yak cheese and yak fiber? Read all you need to know about ...

This is our off grid cabin we built on our homestead. We decided to build an off-grid cabin in the woods on our 20-acre homestead that could possibly make us some additional homestead revenue.

I recently went to our homestead kitchen faucet to get a glass of water and nothing came out! What a “sinking” feeling that was! After checking the breaker, testing the well control box and ...

The author’s air-source heat pump resembles an air conditioning unit, and it pictured here alongside one of the heating oil fuel tanks. Photos by Adam D. Bearup The following story covers our ...

Soil is much more than simple dirt. On close inspection, garden soil is a complex mixture of mineral particles, organic materials, moisture, living organisms and chemical nutrients. Different soil ...

A well-built storm shelter — made with affordable, readily available lumber and materials — will be safe, solid, and secure. On average, more than 1,000 tornadoes touch down annually in the ...