Picnic Favorites

Delicious ideas for summer’s great outdoor gatherings

Summer Yard Additions You Can Get Done in a Day

Spruce up your outdoor space in under eight hours.

5 Ways to Prepare leftover Summer Bounty

Avoid wasting excess or imperfect produce with these tips.

Egg Casserole

By Heather Pierce from Seward, Nebraska

Grilling & Smoking

Refine your outdoor cooking skills with these tips to keep your meat flavorful and juicy.

Projects For Your Home & Land

Inspiration for gardening, yard work, cooking and more as you’re staying close to home

How to Start Selling at Farmers Markets

Expert tips for selling produce and goods at farmers markets.

Growing Potatoes for Year-Round Harvest

Potatoes are one of the easiest root vegetables to grow and you can grow a number of varieties that you probably won't see in the grocery store.

Nashville Chocolatier Offers Stone-Ground Sweetness

Southern ingredients meet old-world methods at Olive & Sinclair

10 Ways to Make Better S’mores

Experiment with new delicious riffs on the family favorite

Gardening Trends Taking Off in 2020

Be a trendsetter by embracing these new gardening ideas, including mushrooms, grains, and double-duty plants

A Passion For Permaculture

Why a couple fled the city life to invest in a sustainable campground

How To Plant A Moon Garden

Choosing the location, plants, and accents for your moon garden

Landscaping with Sunflowers

Expert tips for growing sunflowers, plus a sunflower playhouse project idea and unique varieties to consider

Plant Spring Bulbs

Plant bulbs now for beautiful blooms next spring.

Easy Perennials

Grow these easy-to-grow perennials that will come back year after year!

5 Mobile Apps for Farming, Gardening, and Yard Work

Use your smartphone or tablet to plant smarter and get inspiration for your fields, lawn, and garden

Growing Sweet Peas

Benjamin Kilbride, Editorial Assistant at The Old Farmer’s Almanac

Everything You Need for Square Foot Gardening

Six steps to more food than you thought possible in a small space

RECIPES: Canned and Preserved Foods

Delicious ideas from Neighbor’s Club members

9 Common Gardening Myths Busted

How to tell fact from fiction when it comes to what products to use in your garden.

How To Grow A Pizza Garden

Planting, tending, and harvesting ingredients for pizza night, plus a recipe for garden-fresh pizza sauce.

How to Help Save Frogs on Your Land

Learn why frogs are crucial to healthy ecosystems and how to create a frog-friendly landscape

8 Tips and Tricks to Improve Your Lemonade

Unique ways to make homemade lemonade

5 Steps Toward a Zero Waste Lifestyle

Simple, sustainable changes to make in your home and on the go

Growing Alternative Rose Varieties

When it comes to roses, consider growing more than just the hybrid teas.

Tree Shaping: Your Next Gardening Endeavor?

Consider adding practical and imaginative tree shapes to your landscape

9 Antiquing Tips That Stand the Test of Time

How to find vintage furniture, decor, collectibles, and more

How to Build Raised Beds

Raised beds boost your bounty and reduce its growing time by using a raised bed.

Recipe: Roasted Garlic Parmesan Cauliflower Steaks with Avocado Dip

An easy recipe for a low-carb, plant based main dish

Grow Your Own Cauliflower Steaks

How to choose cauliflower varieties, plant seeds and transplants, and manage and harvest cauliflower plants

Simply Scrumptious Spinach Salad

By Nancy Molnar from Vickery, Ohio

Brussels Sprouts with Pancetta and Dip

Trixi DeRosa-Davis from Salem, South Carolina

How to grow Microgreens Inside

Slow Cooker Favorites

Country-style ribs, cheeseburger soup, and blueberry cobbler—all made in a slow cooker

Recipes: Breakfast Favorites

Breakfast Recipe; Grandma’s Breakfast Casserole

From Forgotten Spaces to Honeybee Homes

Bee habitats bring urban renewal at these Detroit apiaries

Tips for a Honeybee Health Plan

Lay the foundation for long-term beehive health

7 Organizations to Give to this Thanksgiving and Beyond

Looking for ways to give back this holiday season? Consider volunteering or making a donation to organizations that support farmers, livestock care, wildlife, and nature.

Curing Meats at Home

Family traditions add unique flavors to a centuries-old pastime

Tips to Keep a High-Traffic Lawn Looking Good

Tips to Keep a High-Traffic Lawn Looking Good.

How to Grow Healthy Roses

Placement, soil balance, proper planting, and watering are all factors in raising healthy roses in your garden.

Fermenting at Home: Tips from an Expert

Easy steps for getting started with fermenting and a recipe for beet kvass

Find Your Ideal Houseplant

Lifestyle factors for thriving houseplants, plus 10 options to consider adding to your home

Grow More in Less Space with Raised-Bed Gardens

Grow more food in less space by carefully planning your raised-bed garden. Learn how to space plants for the biggest harvest.

Recycled materials make unique and functional garden beds

Living on and off the land means we do all we can to protect, preserve, and conserve it.

Planting Spring-Flowering Bulbs

Fill your garden with color next year by planting spring-flowering tulips this fall!

Mowing to Make a Difference

By Erin Brereton; Photos by Evy Ross
A chance encounter led a college student to launch a national organization, providing free lawn care services to those in need
Rodney Smith Jr. was a senior at the Alabama A&M University when, one summer day in 2015, on his way home from class, he drove by an elderly man who appeared to be struggling to mow his front lawn.
Rodney pulled over and...

Tips for Growing a Successful Vegetable Garden

Learn how to choose a garden spot, how to build a framed garden bed, how to prepare your vegetable seeds, what types of vegetables to plant and more.

How to Build a Root Cellar on your Land

Naturally preserve homegrown produce and other foods

For the Love of Peaches

The Roses run a blossoming business around their passion for perfect peaches.

Composting at Home

Expert tips for turning kitchen and yard waste into soil superfood

Help Your Compost Pile Decompose Faster

Get the rich organic nutrients of compost onto your garden faster by helping your compost pile decompose more quickly.

Indoor Fruit and Vegetable Gardening Projects for Families

9 practical, edible, and just plain fun growing projects

The Little Coffee Shop That Could

The Coffee Barrel finds uncommon, impactful ways to build community in South Texas

How to Restore and Clean Cast-Iron Pans

Instructions for cleaning a castiron pan.

How Do You Start Beekeeping?

First steps for anyone interested in beekeeping.

5 Reasons to Raise Bees

Your gardens and orchard will yield much more if you have your own army of pollinators to fertilize plants and fruit trees.

Stay Organized While Gardening

Gardening is notoriously messy and hard to keep ordered—nature is sometimes a little too wild for us to control.

Growing Basil in Winter

Add a little green to your life during the winter months by growing basil indoors!

How to Grow Microgreens Indoors

Microgreens pack macro flavor and health benefits, and theyre’ are easy to grow indoors

Common Threads: Quilt Camp Builds Community

At an Indiana camp, avid quilters get a chance to connect, grow, and even dabble in a little adventure

SANTA IN CYPRESS

Mississippi wood carver creates unique festive treasures

Holiday Recipes

Whether you get snow or rain during the winter, everyone can enjoy these delicious holiday recipes with friends and family!

A New Podcast Talks Crops

“Field Work” aims to help farmers navigate the growing pains of transitioning to sustainable practices

RECIPES: Fall Vegetables

Delicious ideas from Neighbor’s Club members

Farming in 2020: 8 Tech Trends to Know

From driverless tractors to plant tattoos, learn about the hottest technology hitting farms in the coming year

Quick-Growing Trees

Want to spruce up your property with a new tree or two? Choose quick-growing varieties and provide shade to your yard in a surprisingly short amount of time.

How to Grow an Herbal Lawn

Need a break from mowing? Learn to grow an herbal lawn!

Cranberry Pineapple Punch

By Judy Blythe from Trent Woods, North Carolina

Figgy Pudding with Hard Sauce

Margie Haines from Benton, Tennessee

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bread

By Mary Ann Bricker from Middlefield, Ohio

Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting

This recipe makes for moist, dense bars topped with a rich, sweet frosting.

Gum Drop Cookies

From Charlotte Huck in Davey, Nebraska

Tasty Carrots

Liza Magee from Wattsburg, Pennsylvania

Winterizing Your Lawn Mower

Steps for proper end-of-season maintenance and storage

Homemade Breads

Three unique bread recipes to try

First Frost of the Season

Just because frost is coming doesn’t mean you can’t finish off the year with some late-season crops.

Preparing Your Beehive for Fall and Winter

5 ways to get your hive ready for cooler temperatures and wetter conditions

8 Ways to Reuse, Eat, and Craft with Pumpkins This Fall–Beyond Carving

Creative ideas for using up pumpkins, from eating to decorating

Putting the Garden to Bed

As the nights grow colder and leaves begin to change color, it’s time to start cleaning up the garden. Here are a few tips to do it right!

Landscaping With Creeping Perennials

Spruce up your yard by planting some creeping perennials for beautiful spring color.

Back-to-School Favorites

kid-friendly ideas for a hearty breakfast, a lunchbox snack, and a delicious after-school treat.

Harvesting History

A day at The Farm at Prophetstown, where visitors get a glimpse of agricultural life in the 1920s.

How to Carve a Wooden Spoon

Learn the basics of how to make a high-quality wooden cooking spoon!

Harvest Recipes for Young and Old

While your garden is still producing, turn those vegetables into some delicious meals for friends and family!

Finding Comfort Through Farming

Veterans find work and purpose at this Georgia farm

How to Make Nutrient Tea for Plants

Learn how to make a nutrient mix to supplement your late crops and house plants!

Sweet Summertime Sips

Three refreshing beverages to beat the heat.

Serving Others

Addy Battel founded an organization to help her rural town get access to nutritional food.

Learning Takes Root

Sprout Creek Farm uses science and farming to encourage an appreciation for agriculture among students of all ages.

Recipes: Salads That Celebrate Summer’s Best

Pack the season’s bounty into delicious salads.

Living Traditions Homestead

Couple says goodbye to upscale, big-city living, and hello to homesteading in the Ozarks.

A family’s industrious spirit cooks up farm-fresh restaurant fare

Arriving at his family’s third-generation farm, Andrew Schultz wears a t-shirt emblazoned with an eye-catching, candy-red apple while sipping from a glass of cider.

Growing Grapes

Learn how to grow delicious grapes in your backyard with tips and advice from TSC gardening expert Cindy Shapton.

Baked Salmon and Asparagus Recipe

Erica makes this dish for her family at least once a week. "Even our kids love it and ask for seconds! It's delicious, simple, and healthy, too," she writes.

How to Build a Welded Wire Fence

Building your own welded wire fence isn’t especially difficult, but make sure you do it right the first time, because fixing it can be next to impossible.

Stretching Barbed Wire

Proper wire tension is extremely important for a good fence.

Get Rid of Crabgrass in Your Lawn

You don't have to resign yourself to the presence of crabgrass every year. There are different ways that you can control crabgrass and keep out of your lawn.