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Raising Quail: A Guide for Beginners

Quail require less space, lay tons of eggs, taste great, and are easier to raise than chickens or ducks. Here’s how to get started.

Cowboy Candy is pickled, sliced jalapeños jarred in a sweet syrup consisting of ingredients commonly found in bread-and-butter pickles.

Though this plant is sometimes known as a weed, learning about the benefits might make you reconsider eliminating it from your garden.

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.