100-Year-Old Way to Filter Rainwater in a Barrel
100-Year-Old Way to Filter Rainwater in a Barrel During our boiling, broiling, blistering summer of 2012 here in the Missouri Ozarks, water was a topic of conversation wherever we went…. Read more »
Author Archives: Linda Holliday
Let’s Bring Back Victory Gardens
As the U.S. government begins scaling back its Food Stamp Program, I wonder how 48 million recipients (almost 1 of every 6 Americans) are being advised to make the transition to reduced… Read more »
1881 Cyclopedia Explains Composting Methods and Benefits
1881 Cyclopedia Explains Composting Methods and Benefits When garden composting caught on in the early 1980s, I thought back to my mother sending us kids to the garden every… Read more »
Author Marjory Wildcraft Goes from Hong Kong Highrise to Texas Prepper
Last summer, when a friend presented me with a set of author Marjory Wildcraft’s gardening DVDs, I thought I already knew everything about growing vegetables. This winter, I finally started watching… Read more »
Grow Food All Year Long: Recycled Patio Door Greenhouse Project
In the 1960s, my father spit out the word “plastic” as if it were poison. To him, anything made of a substance other than real wood, metal or glass was… Read more »