Learn how to make perfume from flowers, herbs, and other plants from your garden. This tutorial focuses on how to make oil based perfume. My friend Mary has a green thumb and gets a bumper crop of ...

Assembled, coiffured, and dressed, these apple heads — crafted at home with 50 cents worth of supplies — rival any $20 dolls sold at gift shops. Learn how to make apple head dolls for a down ...

This simple Salt Cured Pork Tenderloin recipe is a great entry to salt curing meat. Use it to spice up your charcuterie board or grate over pasta or eggs. Because I am the only person in my ...

Growing lettuce indoors in winter — even year-round — is possible using Peter Burke’s unique technique for growing salad greens indoors. A very simple idea put me on the path toward growing ...

Several ripe and colorful corn cobs lie next to each other against a gray background. The corn cobs have different colors. Explore the history of ‘Carl’s Glass Gems’ a variety of Native ...

Explore the many marigold uses including a guide to growing marigolds, cooking with edible marigolds, and valuable companion planting. The bright marigolds flanking my doorway and alternating with ...

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When are persimmons ripe? Learn when to pick persimmons, how to preserve persimmons, and how to dry persimmons into delicious fruit leather. From mid-September, through Christmas and into the new ...

Are you looking for a particular vegetable, herb or flower variety and it’s not available in your favorite catalogs? Our MOTHER EARTH NEWS Seed and Plant Finder lets you quickly search the ...

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Slice, cube, or coarsely chop the roots, and cut the hot peppers in halves or quarters. Pack the herbal ingredients tightly into a pint jar, and fill all the way to the neck with vinegar, making ...

These homemade tortillas start with a dough made from whole-grain corn masa that is shaped and then cooked like a pancake on a griddle. Homemade salsa makes a great accompaniment. About 1,500 B.C ...