Maybe it's because Anna Hess' and our childhoods and childhood ambitions were so similar, or maybe it's because both of our prim...

We don't panic often here at the Lab, but last week we had an event that nearly warranted such behavior.  Reaching into the pantry for ...

Growing up, we were (Jake was) very spoiled, as least in terms of wheelbarrows.  We had one with fully steel construction, 25 gallon body at...

On Sunday , we put our fall batch of chickens in the freezer, and now that we've had a chance to crunch the numbers and see how we came ...

Today is the last day for our fall crop of meater chickens.  We were originally planning to do all the processing in-house, but found out ...

The Integral Urban House , published in 1979, is one of the truly seminal books in urban homesteading.  The book records the experiments of ...

Back in February, we said one of the things we wanted to get better at was navigating by compass.  A common exercise for aspiring orient...