AJ Swezey from Gold Creek Rifles has been interested in knives since he was a boy. A year or so ago he was able to learn how to make them from his cousin who has been making knives for many years, and now AJ makes and sells hand made knives

CC photo from Flickr by regan76 Erica has wanted a rain barrel for years; this year she has two at her house that fill up with the rain water from just half of her roof. She plans to use the collected rain water to water her gardens, especially her berr

In 2005 Jeff Wise from Berkey Clean Water had some physical problems and started looking into everything that went in and on his body. As he researched a variety of products and food he learned that water is not as clean as we would like to believe. That

cc photo from Southern Foodways Alliance on Flickr Jennifer has canned since she was a young girl; even through all the years when people thought she was crazy and wondered why she was feeding her family that way. Dr. Jennifer Shambrook is also a universi

Joey and Holly from The Wisconsin Vegetable Garden love to share information about how to grow and store your own food. In this podcast they share more specifically about growing indoors. Traditional gardening is still their favorite, but indoor gard

Kerry is a mother, herbalist, ethnobotanist, teacher at the Herbal Academy Of New England, and the author of several books including The Incense Bible. Kerry believes plants hold specific medicinal, nutritional and spiritual properties that we crave

  For Heather from Home-ec 101 food is love so Thanksgiving is one of her favorite traditions. She hosts a Countdown To Turkey Day every year on her website that includes a variety of recipes and free printables. In this interview we get a bit of behin

Katie from Make It. Grow It has read a lot about alpacas and put that knowledge to practical use with her herd of about 10 alpacas. The main reason she has alpacas is because she is a fiber artist and grows her own good quality fleece for yarn that she k

Megan from My Food Storage Cookbook is passionate about teaching more people about Wonder Ovens. She uses them frequently to conserve fuel and time for cooking. I personally am amazed at all that she cooks and does with what looks like a bean bag. The W

It was hard to find good,  clean meat at an affordable price for Jenna from The Flip Flop Barnyard, her husband, and 6 children so they decided to raise their own meat. They started with chickens and then got some piglets. The very first th