Botanist John Muir carried no bottled water when he hiked 1,000 miles through the wilderness from Indiana to Florida. Instead,...
Mrs. WaterBuck
Linda Holliday lives in the Missouri Ozarks where she and her husband formed Well WaterBoy Products, a company devoted to helping people live more self-sufficiently off grid, and invented the WaterBuck Pump. A former newspaper editor and reporter, Holliday blogs for Mother Earth News, sharing her skills in modern homesteading, organic gardening and human-powered devices. To read more, visit her blog.
Anywhere there is dirt, we should be growing food. Twenty million Americans answered the call to plant Victory Gardens during...
By Linda Holliday Although the language is sometimes cumbersome, I still enjoy old books for learning homesteading skills. A favorite...
By Linda Holliday When Cuba’s economy collapsed after the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, Cubans got healthier growing their own...
By Linda Holliday The older we get, the more often my husband and I catch ourselves saying, “It didn’t use...
Written By: Linda Holliday When my sister and I were youngsters, my mother pulled us in our toy wagon into...
By Linda Holliday Here in the Ozarks, we are expanding our growing areas, relearning old-time skills, acquiring hand tools and...