You can get these results every year by doing this one thing. When it comes to Christmas cactuses, there is one complaint I hear time and again: “I can never get mine to bloom.” That’s understandable, ...

Christmas and other holiday cactuses are classic houseplants that, when given the right care, can live for generations. Lucky for us, that care is easy enough to give. Holiday cactuses have a ...

Save those tomato skins and make bold and flavorful tomato paste. It's much better than anything you can get from the grocery store.

Normally, if you clicked on an article with a similar title here at Rural Sprout, you would be looking at your plants for symptoms. However, we want to make gardeners aware of a serious condition that ...

We all remember making pine cone bird feeders as kids, whether it was at home or school. But did you know these easy and inexpensive feeders are actually an excellent winter food source for many ...

Meredith Skyer is a writer, artist, and homesteader residing in Western New York with her husband and menagerie of farm critters. She has spent the last 12 years learning and implementing a myriad of ...

I like to think of myself as a writer who gardens and a gardener who writes. I was hooked into this lifestyle more than a decade ago, when I decided that my new husband’s tomato patch had to be ...

Hey there, my name is Tracey. I’m the editor-in-chief here at Rural Sprout. Many of our readers already know me from our popular Sunday newsletters. (You are signed up for our newsletters, right?) ...

Lydia Noyes is a content writer and hobby farmer in southwest Michigan. Together with her husband, she manages a diverse 34-acre property with a large garden, fruit trees, hayfields, native plant ...

Well, hello, szia and bună ziua! My name is Cheryl Magyar and I am a homesteader, organic no-dig gardener and preserver of fruits, vegetables, herbs and life in general. I'm also a forager and a ...