A last spring, we wrote about a few ways we reduce the water used by our toilet.  Unfortunately, most of those methods still result in the ...

Back in November, we started working our way through The Integral Urban House , a seminal book on urban homesteading, with the objective of...

Anna Hess' new ebook, Naturally Bug Free , is an excellent resource for gardeners who want to combat garden pests, but not with man-made...

Hey! This is our 100th post!  Hard to believe it's been a year already! Back in January , we wrapped up our twelfth month of eggnog ...

On Thursday, we posted about historical methods to drip lye and some of the chemistry associated with it.  Today, we wanted to talk abo...

One thing that's not done as much anymore as it should be is making lye on the homestead.  A major contributor to this phenomenon is lik...

It seems that a lot of recipes for homemade hygiene products call for coconut oil as a primary ingredient.  And why not?  Coconut oil is t...