Food

Storage, shelf life, calories per dollar and growing your own.

• Growing Medicinal Herbs From Seed: What Each One Needs

  Most medicinal herb guides skip the step that decides whether you get plants at all. It isn't soil, water, or light. It's cold stratification — the…

• What a Quarter Acre Actually Feeds: The Yield Math

  The self-sufficiency conversation runs on pounds. Pounds of tomatoes, pounds of zucchini, a photograph of a full harvest basket. Pounds are the wrong…