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Forests with Fallen Trees Heal On Their Own Unless a forest is being used to grow salvageable timber, the best thing to do for a forest with fallen trees is leave it alone. By Staff, Utne Reader Photo By Fotolia/andreiuc88

Forests with Fallen Trees Heal On Their Own

Unless a forest is being used to grow salvageable timber, the best thing to do for a forest with fallen trees is leave it alone.

By Staff, Utne Reader
Photo By Fotolia/andreiuc88
Do-It-Yourself Porch Swing Everyone needs a cozy spot to relax and sip some iced tea, and this plan works even if you don’t have a porch! By Steve Maxwell Photo by MARK BURSTYN

Do-It-Yourself Porch Swing

Everyone needs a cozy spot to relax and sip some iced tea, and this plan works even if you don’t have a porch!

By Steve Maxwell

Photo by MARK BURSTYN

Quinoa-Zucchini Cakes With Summer Herbs Recipe You can throw almost any veggie into this mixture. It’s a great way to use whatever’s fresh and available. By Tabitha Alterman PHOTO BY: EMILY HELLER

Quinoa-Zucchini Cakes With Summer Herbs Recipe

You can throw almost any veggie into this mixture. It’s a great way to use whatever’s fresh and available.

By Tabitha Alterman

PHOTO BY: EMILY HELLER

The ABC’s of Soil Science If you want to know how to create better soil, you’ve got to learn basic soil science including information about soil color, texture and structure. By Rachel Gilker Photo By Fotolia/Igrik

The ABC’s of Soil Science

If you want to know how to create better soil, you’ve got to learn basic soil science including information about soil color, texture and structure.

By Rachel Gilker

Photo By Fotolia/Igrik

Three Rare Beans Plant these exceptional beans now to add color and zip to midsummer meals. By William Woys Weaver

Three Rare Beans

Plant these exceptional beans now to add color and zip to midsummer meals.

By William Woys Weaver

Living the Tiny Home Life: An Interview With Tammy Strobel When tiny homes enthusiast Tammy Strobel decided she needed a life makeover, she wasn’t immediately drawn to small home living. But through the journey of simplifying her life to a mortgage-free existence, she discovered the big happiness that tiny house living can provide. By Katy Tynan Photo by Tammy Strobel, www.Flickr.com/photos/rowdykittens

Living the Tiny Home Life: An Interview With Tammy Strobel

When tiny homes enthusiast Tammy Strobel decided she needed a life makeover, she wasn’t immediately drawn to small home living. But through the journey of simplifying her life to a mortgage-free existence, she discovered the big happiness that tiny house living can provide.

By Katy Tynan

Photo by Tammy Strobel, www.Flickr.com/photos/rowdykittens

Gone Hunting for Food Hunting for food may be the latest foodie trend, but it also lets young urbanites reestablish a relationship with food and with the past. Chelsea Murray, from This Magazine Illustration By Kate Bergin

Gone Hunting for Food

Hunting for food may be the latest foodie trend, but it also lets young urbanites reestablish a relationship with food and with the past.

Chelsea Murray, from This Magazine
Illustration By Kate Bergin
Living the Tiny Home Life: And Interview With Tammy Strobel When tiny homes enthusiast Tammy Strobel decided she needed a life makeover, she wasn’t immediately drawn to small home living. But through the journey of simplifying her life to a mortgage-free existence, she discovered the big happiness that tiny house living can provide. By Katy Tynan

Living the Tiny Home Life: And Interview With Tammy Strobel

When tiny homes enthusiast Tammy Strobel decided she needed a life makeover, she wasn’t immediately drawn to small home living. But through the journey of simplifying her life to a mortgage-free existence, she discovered the big happiness that tiny house living can provide.

By Katy Tynan

Healthy No-knead Bread Recipes With just five minutes a day of effort, you can make superhealthy breads with nutritious whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. Plus, you’ll save big bucks on groceries. By Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë François 

Healthy No-knead Bread Recipes

With just five minutes a day of effort, you can make superhealthy breads with nutritious whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. Plus, you’ll save big bucks on groceries.

By Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë François 

Easy DIY Garden Shed Plans Anyone can build a small, simple and sensational shed! By Steve Maxwell  Illustration by ELAYNE SEARS

Easy DIY Garden Shed Plans

Anyone can build a small, simple and sensational shed!

By Steve Maxwell 

Illustration by ELAYNE SEARS