How Self-Sufficiency Can Rescue America

Why let your vegetables grow out when you can grow them up? Vertical gardens are becoming increasingly popular as attractive and efficient ways of growing food, especially for urban dwellers where horizontal space is limited. [ … ]

  Creating a homestead that is self-sufficient is challenging enough — and one of the most challenging aspects is trying to grow enough food to sustain both humans and livestock each year. As difficult as [ … ]

  Nothing slows the activity on a homestead down as much as wintertime. The bustle of spring planting and calving, and the harvest of summer and fall give way to quieter days of tending livestock, [ … ]