From a homesteader who raises rabbits for both meat and leather, here are the basics of how to tan a rabbit hide. Like many modern homesteaders, I keep rabbits for meat. However, unlike most small ...

Making a beautiful homemade broom is easy, fun, and practical. Start building your skills by making this DIY hearth broom from broomcorn, then move up to larger brooms.

Learn 7 reasons to start building a beautiful inexpensive stone house. Stone houses are durable and sustainable homes that can last for centuries. Read more.

Use these plans to construct your own DIY root cellar. Cold storage is the best way to store potatoes and onions, and even certain fruit and leafy greens!

We were pleased to report in “ Homemade Motor Fuel Through Wood Gasification ” that our experiments concerning the use of wood scraps for vehicle motor fuel showed promise. But little did we ...

You can use many household organic “waste” materials to produce your own natural gas for cooking, lighting, and space and water heating. This gas, known as “biogas,” can also replace ...

Connect with an age-old process and the life cycle of plants by learning how to make paper from plants. Many of us are conscious of ways we can use resources sustainably, create things ourselves ...

Learn how to build a purple martin birdhouse. These purple martin house plans create stackable floors to accommodate a growing colony, year after year.

Learn how to spin yarn by hand and get quality drop spindle instructions. Start using this tool that’s hardly changed since the Stone Age. I taught myself to spin when I was about 13 years old ...

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Turn a car alternator into a homemade wind turbine by building this cheap and easy DIY wind generator. Maybe you reside on a boat, vacation in a remote cabin, or live off-grid like me. Or perhaps ...

Want to learn how to vermicompost? Start your DIY worm farm by sourcing your worms and building a worm bin for your little wriggling composters.