Source: Wikimedia Commons
Every summer, for several decades, a brown tent went up on a vacant lot in thousands of American towns and the town got a week of lectures.
Not…
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Sorghum syrup was the only sweetener an American farm could produce without buying a single thing.
Sweet sorghum is a tall annual grass that grows where sugar cane…
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Houses built before the twentieth century frequently had one small closet or none at all, and the reason is not that people were deprived of storage. It is…
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Every American town of any size had a livery stable near its middle, and it was a paid service business rather than a barn somebody let people use.…
Source: Wikimedia Commons
In the corn country of the Midwest, the cobs left over after shelling were a household fuel. Not a last resort - a sensible choice for a particular…
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Sauerkraut is the one preservation method that works by encouraging decay instead of preventing it.
Canning, drying, salting and cooling all do the same thing - stop biological…