This summer, in collaboration with repurposed MATERIALS, we launched our Trash to Treasure photo contest and asked you all to share your projects.

Create a rosehip syrup recipe with honey made from rose hips, a little fruit left behind after a rose blooms.

Discover small solar home battery options, including flooded lead-acid, deep-discharge, and lithium-iron phosphate batteries. Welcome to our series answering reader questions and concerns about how to ...

You always wanted to keep dairy goats. You wanted your own fresh — and free — goat milk, goat cheese, goat milk yogurt and maybe even goat meat without having to worry about antibiotics and hormones ...

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Whether you’re tackling repairs, building metal art, or diving into a new DIY adventure, this Welding Starter Kit from Forney Industries has everything you need to get started the right way. Here is ...

Even entry-level fermenters can brew homemade sparkling cider! Find out how to make apple “champagne” with a couple gallons of cider and a fermentation lock. In just a month or two, apple season will ...

Learn how to engrave wood with burning to create a wood-burned cutting board that’ll make a striking and memorable keepsake.

The system takes water from near the bottom of a solar heat storage tank and pumps it through a collector — where it’s heated by the sun — and then back to the tank. This continues as long as there’s ...

While foraging, hunting, gardening and gathering for his livelihood, Miles Olson’s experiences have given him a unique perspective on "rewiliding," radical self-reliance, and the impact of ...

Wood gas trucks! From left: ’95 Dodge Ram 2500 V10; ’84 Ford F250 V8; ’93 Dodge Dakota V8; ’92 Dakota V8 (conversion in progress). Back in 2004, Wayne Keith drew a line in the sand at $1.50. That’s ...