International Homesteading Education Month is in full swing, and the six families we named our 2013 Homesteaders of the Year are inspiring examples of modern homesteading skills and values in action. These folks — such as the Chandler-Isacksen family (pictured below), who run the urban...

You’ll never buy dried herbs again after you try one or more of these six methods for drying herbs at home. By Tabitha Alterman Of all the various types of foods and ways to preserve them — freezing or canning fruits and vegetables, pickling, curing meat, making cheese and...