Mother Earth News and Friends
Mother Earth News and Friends shares the stories of the leaders in sustainable and rural living. We’re passionate about helping people learn more about natural health, homesteading, sustainability, and more.
Fermentation Journeys
Raising Pheasant Chicks
Apartment Homesteading: How to Be a Homesteader in Limited Space
Best Egg Layers: Top Hybrid & Heritage Breeds
Audio Article: Keep Chickens in Winter Gardens
Preparing for Extreme Weather Events
What to Know About Raising Swans
Can You Eat Wild Boar?
Best Vegetables for Canning, Dehydrating, and More
Audio Article: Can Chickens Hatch Ducks?
Heritage Breed Update with the Livestock Conservancy
Condors, Conservation, & You
Do Pigeons Make Good Pets? An Interview with the National Pigeon Association
Responsible Antibiotics Use in Animals
Audio Article: Keep Your Ducks in a Row
How to Sell Eggs from Home
Gardening Problems and Solutions
How to Protect Your Poultry and Waterfowl
Audio Article: Chick and Duckling Imprinting
How to Care for Baby Ducks
Teaching Kids About Hatching Baby Chicks
Audio Article: Bring New Chicks Home
A Mushroom Hunting Guide for Beginners
When to Stop Turning Chicken Eggs and Other Incubation Troubleshooting
Plans for Growing Vegetables for Beginners
Making Soap with Lye for Beginners
Audio Article - Not Just for the Birds: Bird Feeding and You
Home Solar Energy Pros and Cons
External Parasite Prevention for Pets and Livestock
Audio Article: Essential Elements for a Predator-Proof Coop
Audio Article: Build a Basic Survival Shelter
How to Grow Mushrooms: Liquid Culture Recipe
Audio Article: Learning with Seeds, Engaging Young Minds
Intro to 4-H Chicken Showmanship and Poultry Projects
What are Cordyceps?
Audio Article: Rodenticide Toxicity in Pets
Audio Article: Outrunning a Bug Apocalypse
Chicken Combs: Problems and Care
Gardening With Kids: Getting Them Started
Audio Article: Hunting to Put Food on the Table
Audio Article: Black Foodways: Nourishing the Community, Sharing Knowledge
How to Start a Gardening Business: Community Gardens, Consultations, and Installations
Seed-Starting Tips with Indy Officinalis
Chicken Coop Essentials and Design Ideas
What’s the Deal with Truffles?
Urban Farming & Selling Microgreens
Audio Article: Year-Round Care for Sheep
Farmers Markets, Food Systems, and Community Building
Audio Article: All About the Heat
How to Raise Geese with Dave Holderread
Raising Heritage Goat Breeds for Milk
Discussing Animal Care with Dr. Pol
Audio Article: Food Versus Fuel
Sustainability and Houseplants with Summer Rayne Oakes
Sustainability and Community: A Talk with the 2023 Mother Earth News Voices
Heritage Poultry Update: Threatened Rare Chicken Breeds & More
Ep. 191 Herbal Spotlight: Wild Medicinal Plants to Forage
Audio Article: Cation Exchange Capacity in the Garden
Ep. 190 What to Know about Elk Farming
Audio Article: How the Electric Car Killed the Corn Industry
Ep. 189 Raising Emus for Profit
Ep. 188 Spicy Chiles: What Makes Peppers Hot?
Ep. 187 Edible Insects for Pets and People
Audio Article: Transitioning to a Certified Organic Farm
Ep. 186 Learn to Build with Natural Materials
Audio Article: Draft Horses on the Homestead
Ep. 185 How to Raise Ducks for Eggs in Your Backyard
Ep. 184 Caring for Carnivorous Plants
Ep. 183 Dealing with Parasites in Your Beehives
Audio Article: How to Help Wild Baby Birds
Ep. 182 Building Sustainable Communities
Audio Article: Repair the Nitrogen Cycle in Your Garden
Audio Article: Raising Goslings
Ep. 181 How to Care for Baby Chicks in Summer or Fall
Audio Article: After Day 22
Audio Article: Weather-Related Power Outages
Audio Article: Seek Out Small Farms
Audio Article: Saving Biennial Seeds
Ep. 180 Dragonflies on Your Property
Audio Article: Host a Successful Farm Workshop
Audio Article: Dickering, The High Art of Going Low
Audio Article: Prevent Compost Toxicity in Dogs
Ep. 179 How to Make Biogas at Home with a Biogas Digester
Audio Article: Breeding Ratios for Chickens and Ducks
Ep. 178 How to Incubate Eggs of Mixed Birds Together
Ep. 177 Navigate New Antibiotics Guidelines with Veterinary-Client-Patient Relationship
Ep. 176 Planning and Preparing a Garden for Spring
Ep. 175 Black Farmer Stories with Myriah Towner
Ep. 174 How to Start an Agritourism Business to Diversify Farm Income
Bonus Episode: “Let’s All Keep Chickens!” Book Interview with Dalia Monterroso
Ep. 173 Extreme Weather Poultry: How Hot Is Too Hot for Chickens?
Ep. 172 Where to Put House Plants So They Thrive
Audio Article: Why Is There Still a Seed Shortage?
Audio Article: Birds of a Feather Incubate Together
Audio Article: Decoding Growing Zones
Ep. 171 What Are Brassicas and How Do You Cultivate and Cook Them?
Audio Article: What to Know About the New Antibiotics Restriction
Ep. 170 Temple Grandin on Living More Sustainably in the New Year
Audio Article: Raising Rabbits in Colonies
Audio Article: Scrumptious Salt-Rising Bread
Ep. 169 Reading Nutrition Labels and Finding Your Healthy Lifestyle
Audio Article: Barcelona Olives and Almonds
Ep. 168 Chickens: Raising Broilers from Start to Finish
Audio Article: Mossin’ Annie
Ep. 167 Building an Eco-Cabin, Part 1
Ep.167 Building an Eco-Cabin, Part 2
Audio Article: Bovine Leukemia Virus, A Call to Action
Audio Article: Scrapple: Tasty Economy
Audio Article: Spill the Beans
Ep. 166 Hunting Skills & Ethics
Audio Article: Peak Apple-Picking Season
Ep. 165 Therapy Chickens
Audio Article: Farmsteading Profits Beyond Meat, Eggs, and Vegetables
Audio Article: Grandma and Grandpa’s Red Wattle Hogs
Audio Article: Ancient Grains for Modern Growers
Ep. 164 Heritage Breeds of Chickens with the Chicken Ladies
Ep. 163 Work Horse Breeds for Farmsteading and Forestry
Ep. 162 Poultry Profits: Offsetting the Cost of Raising Chickens
Ep. 161 Preparing Your Bees for Winter
Ep. 160 Freshwater Fishing Tips and Strategies
Ep. 159 Can You Have Chickens in City Limits?
Ep. 158 How to Keep Chickens Warm in Winter
Ep. 157 Farmers’ Markets
Ep. 146 Chick and Chicken Injuries
Ep.156 Identifying Poultry and Small Ruminant Diseases
Ep.155 Raising Backyard Quail in the City
Ep. 152 Chicken Coops
Audio Article: Heat Waves and Drought
Audio Article: Growing Strawberries
Ep. 153 Why Chickens Lay Eggs
Ep. 151 Planting Fall Garden Crops
Ep. 148 How to Raise Ducks
Ep. 150 What Can Chickens Eat?
Ep. 149 Herbs for Health and Healing
Audio Article: Rainwater Collection Systems
Audio Article: How to Choose a Cow Pony
Ep. 147 Managing a Mixed Flock
Ep. 144 Poultry Eggs
Ep. 145 Michelle Schuman: A Female Environmentalist
Chickens 101: Hatch Day
Ep. 143 Caring for Baby Chicks
Ep. 142 How to Be a Natural Beekeeper
Ep.136b Make Your Own Seed and Nut Oils
Ep.136a Make Your Own Seed and Nut Oils
Ep. 141 Chick Illness
Ep. 140 Wild and Beautiful Skincare
Ep. 137 Poultry Fencing
Ep. 139 Preparing for Chicks
Ep.138 Chick Incubation
Audio Article: Meadow Flowers
Audio Article: Kidding Without a Vet
Audio Article: Conservation Easements
Audio Article: Friendly Geese for Backyard Flocks
Ep. 135 Chicken Breeds
Ep. 134 Green Transit
Audio Article: Herbal Dewormers
Audio Article: Goat Vaccinations and Injectables
Audio Article: The Controversy of Dehorning
Ep. 132 Hosting Solitary Bees
Ep. 132 Teaching Sustainability
Ep.131 Caring for Chicks
Audio Article: Outwit Hardworking Beavers
Ep. 130b Planning and Building Your Tiny Home
Ep. 130a Planning and Building Your Tiny Home
Audio Article: Tractor Tire Repairs Made Easy
Audio Article: Starting Your Own Soap Making Business
Audio Article: 10 Agritourism Ideas For Your Farm
Audio Article: Why Did My Bees Die?
Audio Article: Journey to Eden
Audio Article: My Little Free Seed Library
Audio Article: Peter Larson
Ep. 129 Fresh Banana Leaves and Indigenous Knowledge
Audio Article: How to Prevent Common Tomato Diseases
Audio Article: Spineless Cacti
Ep 128b Endangered and Unusual Poultry Breeds
Ep 128a Endangered and Unusual Poultry Breeds
Ep.127 Herbal Business and Holistic Dental Care
Audio Article: Pecan Trees
Ep 126 Urban Preparedness
Audio Article: Solitary Bees
Audio Article: Farming with Disability
Audio Article: The Steaks are High
Audio Article: Flood Management
Audio Article: The Significance of Soil Health
Audio Article: Cultivating Buckwheat
Audio Article: Build a Better Herd
Audio Article: Pack a Pocketknife
Ep.124 Natural Health and Beauty for Skin and Hair
Ep. 123 Welcome to Herbal Content Cottage
Ep. 122 The Intrepid Ivy Association
Audio Article: Creole Healing Herbs
Audio Article: Shetland Wool
Audio Article: Natural Funerals
Ep. 121 Keep Your Flock Safe From Predators
Audio Article: Coffee Fermentation
Ep. 120 Crop Swap LA
Audio Article: Easy, Fast Flatbread
Audio Article: Selecting a Smoker
Audio Article: Rustic ‘Red Fife’ Wheat
Audio Article: Start an At-Home Antiques Business
Audio Article: First Nations Gardens
Ep. 119 Hunting Small Wildlife
Ep. 118 Keeping Roosters
Ep. 117 Stewarding Heirloom Wheats
Audio Article: Fermenting Compost
Audio Article: What is Organic?
Ep. 116 Pasturing Geese and Ducks
Audio Article: Mangel-Wurzel
Audio Article: Guinea Hogs
Audio Article: Creating a Love of Food in Kids
Ep. 115 Introduction to Seed Saving
Heirlooms and Herbals: Tulsi
Ep. 88 Heirlooms and Herbals: Rose
Ep. 89 Heirlooms and Herbals: Mullein
Ep. 91 Heirlooms and Herbals: Marshmallow
Ep. 114 Feeding and Housing Quail
Ep. 113 Bison Ranching
Audio Article: Culturally Significant Seed Saving
Audio Article: City Chickens
Ep. 112 Herbal Health
Audio Article: Saving Our Seeds, Saving Ourselves
Audio Article: Plant Breeding Basics
Audio Article: Making the Most of Mulberries
Audio Article: Poitou Donkeys
Ep. 111 – Treating Splay Leg and Bumblefoot
Ep. 110 Green Death
Ep. 109 - Chickens and the Garden
Audio Article: Raise Pastured Geese and Ducks
Ep. 108 The Artisan Herbalist
Audio Article: Indigenous Corn Cultivars
Audio Article: Beginning Sheep Shearing
Audio Article: Comfort Foods-Potato Paradise
Audio Article: Homegrown Wheat Project
Ep. 107 What is Brooding
Ep. 106 Crafting Quality Cabins
Audio Article - Cooking with Pork Skin
Ep. 105 Candling and Embryos
Audio Article - Challenges with Cultivars
Audio Article - Bloomington Community Orchard
Audio Article - Luffa
Hank's Hacks, Ep. 3 - Sheep!
Audio Article - Black Soldier Flies
Ep. 104 Raising Chicks
Audio Article: Forest Restoration
Ep 103 What's In An Egg
Hank's Hacks, Ep. 2 - Why Homestead
Audio Article: Populate Your Property with Pomegranates
Ep. 102 The Right Chickens for You
Finding Chicks
Virginia Free Farm
Handcrafted Soaps
Hank's Hacks
Protecting the Prairie Chicken
Turkeys on the Farmstead
Starting a Farmer's Market
Geese 101
Raising Pheasants
Find Your Flock
Caring for Quail
Sheep and Goat Care
Broiler Chickens
The Magic of Koji
Chicken Behaviour
Coops, Brooders, and Chicken Houses
Canning and Food Preservation
Caring for Layers
Influencing Change
Adventures in Agritourism
Ep. 78 Sheep and Their Fleeces, Part 3
Ep. 78 Sheep and Their Fleeces, Part 2
Ep. 78 Sheep and Their Fleece, Part I
Ep 76 Conversations on Home Brewing and the History of Beer
Ep 75 Seeking Quality CBD Oil
Ep 74 pt 2 Soil Revival
Ep. 74 Soil Revival
Ep. 73 Waterfowl Conservation
Ep. 72 Talking Turkey
Ep. 71 Upland Game Birds
Ep. 70 Anti-Inflammatory Lifestyle
Ep. 69 Heritage Pigs
Ep. 68 Women's Hormonal Health and Fertility
Ep. 67 Slow Flowers
Ep. 66 Guineas as Guardians
Ep. 65 Fermentation
Ep. 87 Yarrow
Ep. 64 Landscaping with Goats
Ep. 63 Pastured Chicken Nutrition
Ep. 62 Polyface Rotational Farming
Ep. 61 Green Automobiles
Ep 55.2 Incubation Check-In
Ep. 60 Chickens in Permaculture
Ep. 59 Vermicomposting
Ep 55.1 Incubation Check-In
Ep. 58 Garden Planning for Food Preservation
Ep. 57 Bottle Feeding Livestock
Ep. 56 Natural Building
State of Mother 2019
Ep. 55 Chicken Keeping in School
Ep. 54 Grant Writing
Ep. 53 Heritage Breeds
Ep. 52 Cold Weather Chickens
Ep. 51 Tiny Homes and Intentional Living
Ep. 50 Men's Herbal Health
Ep. 49 Game Hunting Pt 2
Ep. 49 Game Hunting
Ep. 48 Women in Farming - Sponsored by DR Power Equipment
Ep. 47 Bread Making: From No-Knead to Sour Dough
Ep. 46 Building Soil
Ep. 45 Industrial Hemp
Ep. 44 Permaculture Ethics
Ep. 42 Aquaponics at Nile Valley
Ep. 41 Off-Grid Preppers
Ep. 40 Grains for Your Health
Ep. 39 Natural Skincare
Ep. 38 From Lambs to Llamas Pt.2
Ep. 38 From Lambs to Llamas: Raising Livestock for Fiber
Ep. 37 Graft a Better World
Ep. 36 Sensitivities and Gluten
Ep. 35 Wellness Garden
Bees: Profile of a Bee Keeper
Ep. 34 Organic Pest Control
Ep. 33 Vegetables Love Flowers
Ep. 32 Pasture Raising Pork
Ep. 31 Live Deliberately
Bees: Swarm Essentials
Ep. 29 Straight Dope on Cannabis
Ep. 28 The Scoop on Poop
Ep. 27 Hydrosols
Ep. 26 Marvelous Mushrooms
Ep. 25 Kefir and Kombucha: Brewing with Bacteria
Ep. 24 Ducks on Demand
Ep. 23 Making the Most of Older Animals
Ep. 22 Writing Urban Ag Policy
Ep. 21 Ayurveda
Ep. 20 Great Guide to Guinea Fowl
Ep. 19 Pt. 2 Leathers and Furs: Preserving Animal Hides
Ep. 19 Leathers and Furs: Preserving Animal Hides
Bees: Harvest Your Honey
Ep. 17 Poultry Breeds and Species
Ep. 16 Cool Coops
Ep. 15 Order from the Butcher Block
Ep. 14 Get to Know Goats
Ep. 13 Succession Gardening
Ep. 12 Profit with Poultry
Mini - The Nature of Things
Ep. 11 Craft Distilling
Mini 2 "Spoon Man" Made It at the Fair
Ep. 10 Green Weddings
Ep. 09 Herbs for Your Teacup
Ep. 08 Common Flock Problems
Ep. 07 Get Started with Chickens
Bees: Beeginning With Bees
Mini 1 - Dr. Green
Ep. 05 Charcuterie in the City
Ep. 04 Sustainable Energy Inside City Limits
Ep. 03 Keeping Urban Chickens
Ep. 02 Favorite Medicinal Plants