Yard And Garden

Trees And Shrubs

Shrubs for Difficult Garden Soil

Jean Fritz

Berm Building and Mulching for Water Retention

Nana

Philosophy of Pruning Shrubs

David Squire

It's the Most Prune-able Time of the Year!

Renee-Lucie Benoit

Planting and Establishing Shrubs and Trees

David Squire

Learning to grow and savor what you produce is what makes farming a lifestyle not just a living. (Skyhorse Publishing, 2011), from husband and wife team Michael and Audrey Levatino, provide a working example of how to live sustainable lives while protecting the land. In this excerpt from the sixth chapter, titled “The Flower Garden”, […]

How to Use Heirloom Flowers

Chris McLaughlin

All About Zinnias

Gary Noel Ross

All About Maidenhair Ferns

Ricardo Elisiário

Go Wild with Native Roses

Ben Whitacre

Popular Now

Repelling Snakes Don’t panic. Follow these tips for safely removing snakes from your home.

Crochet a Denim Rag Rug Turn the legs of worn-out jeans into a hard-wearing rug thick enough to ease tired feet with this fun crochet project.

How to Braid a Cozy Rag Rug Braid a rag rug to add warmth and color to your home with a unique floor covering made from leftover fabric scraps.

History of the Old Outhouse A look at the privy's history, such as outhouse designs, including the two-story outhouse, as well as outhouse construction.

Subscribe to our sister publication GRIT Magazine
and get the Nitty-GRIT-ty on Rural Living

Subscribe to Grit Magazine

Vegetables Fruit and Herbs

A Guide to Vegetable Legumes

Will Bonsall

In Will Bonsall’s Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening, author Will Bonsall maintains that to achieve real wealth we first need to understand the economy of the land, to realize that things that might make sense economically don’t always make sense ecologically, and vice versa. The marketplace distorts our values, and our modern dependence on […]