In honor of Earth Month—and Earth Day later this week—we’re celebrating the best way we know how: with a series of stories that are all about getting outside and getting your hands dirty to benefit ...

The wood chips that accumulate from chopping wood can be put to good use on a homestead. We heat our home during the winter months with an outdoor woodburning stove — and it works wonderfully. But ...

When Bay Area designers Kevin McElroy and Matthew Wolpe of Just Fine Design/Build unveiled their mod chicken coop Chick-in-a-Box at a 2010 Maker Faire, they thought they were on to something. Chickens ...

Layer birds resting in the wooden cages. Photo by George Katongole. Rose Akol, a poultry farmer in Kakira has found a new way to reduce labour at her farm by using wooden nesting boxes for her layers.