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You know that feeling. You're all set to bake a loaf of bread. The flour is out, the kitchen's warm, you're in the zone. Then you open the cupboard and… no yeast. Empty jar. Maybe the store is...

Toss a few live mealworms into your chicken run and you will quickly learn something important. Your chickens can move fast when they want to. Heads go down. Wings flap. Somebody makes an...

The best sunburn remedy might already be growing in your backyard. You spent all Saturday morning in the garden. Weeding the tomato beds. Transplanting those peppers that were getting leggy in...

I built an entire 8x10 garden shed last summer and spent exactly $47. That covered a box of screws, a tube of construction adhesive, and a cold six-pack for my buddy who helped me hang the...

There's a reason potatoes have kept families alive through wars, famines, and long, cold winters for centuries. Plant a single pound of seed potatoes, and by season's end you can dig up ten pounds or...

There's a shoebox on the top shelf of my potting shed. It's stuffed with little paper envelopes — tomatoes, beans, marigolds, three kinds of lettuce, a squash I can't even remember the name...