Using a unique hydrogel, scientists in Saudi Arabia have successfully drawn water out of the dry air for growing spinach--while producing electricity from the solar panels that power it all.

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Instead of shipping food all around the world, imagine your own food coming from your farm in a shipping container, just outside your backdoor.

Experts lift the lid on the best tricks - including wearing a pair of rubber gloves for a sturdy grip

Korean Natural Farming is an incredibly unique and interesting approach to farming.

Interested in growing your own micro-greens to boost your food production? This is what you'll need…

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We've all been watching prices climb at the grocery stores, and it's only getting worse. There are issues at every level of food production and distribution.

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According to Israeli startup Tevel Aerobotics, there is a severe shortage of workers available to pick fruit at orchards. That's why the company is developing an alternative, in the form of autonomous flying drones which do the job.

You can save upwards of 75% on the total cost required to fill your raised bed garden utilizing this technique!

2022 is looking to be a rocky year. What are you doing right now to boost your food production for the upcoming year?

Nurseries do not want you to know this simple and open secret of propagating many varieties of plants such as blackberries, raspberries, grapes, tomatoes, figs, roses etc.

Cattle Panels: $25 apiece, used 2; Greenhouse Plastic: $30 remnant left over from replacing plastic on the big greenhouse last Fall; Pallets: Reclaimed, free. If I buy them it is $5 apiece and I used 4.

In this video, I show you how to grow potatoes in a cardboard box container as a great gardening hack to recycle, reuse, and be more sustainable.

If you have a bumper crop of herbs and want to experiment with your own spices, this video will show you a simple way to harvest, prepare, and dehydrate herbs. You can mix them into your own spice blends, or preserve them as-is to use for cooking.

Join Jacques and I as we build a protective and productive orchard in the outdoor run for Jacques' chickens! This experiment should protect his hens from birds of prey while throwing a ton of fruit out over the next few years!

-to halt food production in the name of fighting climate change

A head-to-head analysis of goats and sheep to see which may suite you better.

As a modern homesteader and a mom, hot cocoa around the holidays is also a must. But every time my kids would use those packets of store-bought cocoa powder I would die a little inside (have you ever read the ingredients on those things? Hydrogenated

One of our greatest joys is providing our own meat for our family (and some family members) from our own land. We know exactly what goes into our meat, how the animals are treated and are blessed by the cycle of it all.

Are you new to raising chickens and need help choosing to build or buy a coop? This video will give you all the basic info you need to decide and how to take care of your new chickens!

In the early 90s, Mark and Jen Shepard bought a degraded corn farm in Viola, Wisconsin, and began to slowly convert it from row-crops back to a native oak savanna that would become one of the most productive perennial farms in the country.

Winter temperatures in Alliance, Nebraska can drop to -20°F (the record low is -40°F/C), but retired mailman Russ Finch grows oranges in his backyard greenhouse without paying for heat. Instead, he draws on the earth's stable temperature (around 52

How I'm running my electric fence for my sheep very inexpensively using a temporary polywire line, netting, and geared reels. This can work for any animal species.

While there are a lot of food acquisition tools out there, they're not all created equally. Some are better than others and some flat-out don't work for most people.

MeaTech 3D created the 4oz steak using 3D printing with real bovine cells that mature into muscle and fat

In this video, I show you how I grew potatoes in 3 different ways: from supermarket potatoes, wrist deep, and in drills and we see which is better!

Eden Project is a the largest greenhouse in the world built in Cornwall UK in Geodesic domes to show that humans can correct Climate change

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DO NOT BUY CHEESE! The whole secret is in the cream! Fast, tasty and cheap for the whole family. Prepare this simple cheese recipe for breakfast or the party table, children and adults alike will love this creamy, delicate cheese flavor.

Want to learn how to gut a deer? We'll show you our favorite method of field dressing a deer. Remember, gutting a deer quickly will leave you with the best tasting meat when eating wild game.

Reviewing the Subpod, the composting product I get the MOST questions about. It took me a while to get this review together because I wanted to put the system through its paces, and as you'll see, there were some design challenges I faced with the la

Stop buying butter! Do it yourself! Only 1 ingredient is required. Butter is quick and easy to make. Everyone will like homemade butter because it is delicious.

For over a decade, Israeli atmospheric water generator (AWG) company Watergen has been one of the players working to refine and grow air-to-water technology that can efficiently pull water vapor out of the air and collect it as fresh, filtered drinki

The not-so-healthy Mediterranean diet? Switching from 'Western' foods to non-organically-grown fruit, veg and whole grains can TRIPLE the pesticides you consume and weaken your immune system, study warns

... of your plants. It will tell you how well they're hydrated, attract your attention when they need water and, if you want to go a step further, even give them water!

Learn how to safely pressure can raw chicken in this step-by-step tutorial. Having home-canned chicken on your pantry shelf means you have easy last-minute meals at your fingertips!

Turn your mistakes into wins! Here's how I set up my mushroom cultivation area for mushroom logs, A-frame style. We also discuss farm design and the scale of permanence concept.

Among the many interesting scientific advances we are seeing around obesity and how it might best be tackled, one hormone central to the regulation of appetite routinely rears its head.

Full tour of 3 off-grid passive solar growing domes that can be used as 4-season year-round greenhouses in just about any climate and growing zone. The geodesic dome structure can withstand up to 7 feet of snow and ~180km/h wind speeds. They're bui

Ramutis "Ray" Narkevicius kept his day job with FedEx but cultivated his dream job by gardening his small Los Angeles backyard to a point of passion.

Join Curtis Stone as he discusses homestead irrigation in this live open consultation. If you are needing to design your irrigation, looking to improve your garden irrigation, or embarking on a new homestead, this short clip is for you.

Advances in farming have let us feed billions. The future of agriculture offers many more innovations in robotics, hydroponics, aquaponics, aeroponics, greenhouses, and more... but will it be a future of mega-farms or small farms?

Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison presents on waste water recycling using plants.

Farmer Darby Simpson shares some tips and advice for anyone looking to start raising grassfed cattle on a small farm.

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When ingested, nutrient-rich spirulina blue-green algae is claimed to offer antioxidant, immune-boosting and cholesterol-lowering effects ?" among other things.

Today's vlog has us up in southwest Virginia to visit my stepfather's small cattle operation. We will visit the "ranch" get a bit of insight into fencing plans for our property and check out the cows.