Features of Good Tiny House Plans Not all tiny house plans are equally livable. Some look clever on paper but feel cramped, dark, awkward, or too hard to maintain once built. The best plans usually include a few essentials: useful…
Key Takeaways Successful farming today is about more than growing crops and raising livestock. It also depends on the right production and marketing innovations. Better equipment can improve feed quality, reduce labour, increase efficiency and lower environmental impact at the…
Key Takeaways A marketing email making the rounds lately claims that wooden cutting boards are “a bacteria and mold nightmare,” that they raise food-poisoning risk by “up to 200%,” and that a stainless-steel alternative solves the problem. That’s the email…
A subscriber asked me: “Why is it that no woodworkers I watch on YouTube tell viewers specific amounts of time it takes to complete projects? It’s discouraging for newbies like me when something looks easy but takes me forever. What…
A couple of years ago, at a community dance, I found myself thinking simultaneously about the soil in our pasture fields and the condition of human relationships — and from that comes an analogy worth exploring: what farm fields can…
Key Takeaways What is beauty, exactly? It is one of the most important things in life, yet one of the hardest to define. Most people know beauty when they see it, hear it, or feel its presence, but putting it…
Home improvement matters for reasons that go beyond repairs, upgrades, and property value. At its best, it helps turn the shell of a house into a place where people feel safe, comfortable, and deeply at home. That is the real…
Have you ever been on a workshop date? Let Steve tell you about the workshop dates that he and his wife Mary do, and what they’ve made together on their last one.
If trees grow where you live, then making them into firewood is a great way to reduce heating costs and get exercise. I’ve been cutting firewood and heating with it for 35+ years, and there are five main steps to…
Key Takeaways Thinking about a home standby generator? This guide explains how standby generators work, what an automatic transfer switch does, how load shedding can reduce generator size and cost, and when a portable generator may be the better backup…
See Steve explain the difference between nitrile and latex gloves; understand how to choose disposable work gloves so they can be reused; watch unboxing of biodegradable disposable work gloves; recognize why protective gloves make sense in the workshop
Making delicious chocolate chip cookies in our homestead kitchen!