Mother Earth News February/March 2024 Table of Contents
Digital Content
On the Farm Projects 6-video course
Strategies for as diversifying livestock, generating revenue, and following nature’s patterns toward abundance.
Featured 2023 Fair Workshops 8-video course
A sampling of livestock, medicinal mushrooms, beekeeping, and more.
Organic Gardening Course 2 new video installments
Get tips on making compost tea and on growing in small spaces.
Do Soil Blockers Work? video
Stop buying seed starting pots and use a soil blocker for your starts.
Spring Vaccinations for Goats video course
Get information on the most recommended shots and their timelines.
Successful Seed Starting video
From seed catalogue to transplant, learn how to start your own seeds.
Spring Goat Health Check Guide video
A live goat demonstration for how to administer injections, a FAMACHA check, and more.
Persephone Period & Hoop House Growing video
Can you start seeds at any time if you have a hoop house?
Plan Your Summer Vegetable Garden video
Intentionally plan your vegetable garden and bring in a successful harvest.
Garden Herbs for Flowers & Health video
Useful herbs and flowers for home beauty recipes and treatments.
Print Content
Plan a Garden for a Year’s Worth of Food
Worksheets help conquer the complexities of food self-sufficiency.
Simple, Affordable Seed Starting
A healthy garden begins with healthy seedlings.
Can Coconut Coir Save the World?
This coconut byproduct offers an eco-friendly peat moss alternative.
Machinery and Mud
Minimize compaction on your farm.
Lessons Learned from Selling Homemade Soap
A seasoned soap-maker shares how to avoid slip-ups.
Foster Phenomenal Fungi
Use a grow tent to cultivate mushrooms.
Bring New Chicks Home
Advice to help care for a new box of peeping chicks.
News from Mother
Seed Savings
Dear Mother
Reader letters of inspiration, community, and more.
Green Gazette
Updates on green burials and body composting, chronic wasting disease, pawpaws and pomology, homegrown national parks, and climate preparedness.
Firsthand Reports: Organic Gardening in the South
With a little strategy and tricks up your sleeve, you can beat the heat and keep your plants healthy.
Hometown Hacks: Wheeled and Windowed Composter
Go “table-to-farm” with this convenient composter.
Gone Off-Grid
Hoss Boyd answers questions about energy systems.
Country Lore
Reader tips on making homemade chai, pea trellises, critter mitigation, starting seeds, weather resistant gardening, brooders that disassemble, and more.
Ask Our Experts
Expert advice on baking with purple carrots, dealing with fungus gnats, and making seed tape.
Photos from the Field: Reader-submitted photos.