Fall is the time for planting garlic on your homestead. Garlic bulbs take a long time to develop, so you won't be harvesting your crop until sometime in July or even August.

There are two main types of garlic, hardneck and softneck. The best type for you will depend on your hardiness zone. If you...

At its most basic level, homesteading is about producing calories. This may be the first time you've heard it stated this way, so let's take a minute to think about it. Most of us came to homesteading because we wanted self-sufficiency; we wanted to provide for our own needs to the greatest...