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What’s A Dry Flush Toilet? – The Beginner’s Guide

A dry flush toilet allows you to have a commode in your home without a sewage hook-up or a plumbing system.

Here are the basic principles of what rooting hormones do, how they work, and how you can make some of your own naturally.

Carpenter bees can create a lot of headaches and damage to your property. Here’s how to remove them naturally and without hurting them.

Before you dismiss any of the weeds growing in your yard, you might want to consider their medicinal and nutritional benefits.

Stevia is a natural sweetener that has popped up in both community gardens and homesteads alike. Here’s how to grow and extract it.

Flour is a basic food that everyone should have. You can make your flour last up to a decade or longer using these tried-and-true techniques.

Raised bed gardening in a highly versatile form of growing crops in both small and large places, and it’s become very popular.

Cornpone is a baked or fried combination of cornmeal, water, salt, and fat with other ingredients added by pioneers and Civil War soldiers.

Finding the perfect off-grid property is a dream of many homesteaders, but to truly live off the grid requires a specific type of land.

Orange peels and the peels of other citrus fruits have many frugal uses around the home and garden. Here are 30 uses to consider.