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  • Garden Mulch: Make Your Own from Garden Waste with a Chipper Shredder
    Home Exteriors Outdoors

    Garden Mulch: Make Your Own from Garden Waste with a Chipper Shredder

    BySteve Maxwell April 14, 2026April 14, 2026 Reading Time: 7 minutes

    If you want better soil, fewer weeds, and less watering, garden mulch is one of the best tools you can use. The good news is that you do not need to keep buying bags of mulch. With the right chipper…

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  • Green tractor harvesting wheat in sunny field.
    Lifestyle Outdoors

    Farm Innovation in Action: Two Efficiency-Boosting Machines on an Ontario Beef Farm

    BySteve Maxwell April 10, 2026April 10, 2026 Reading Time: 4 minutes

    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…

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  • Cottage Lakeview
    Home Exteriors Outdoors

    How to Insulate Cottage for Year-Round Living (and Keep Water Flowing)

    BySteve Maxwell April 9, 2026April 10, 2026 Reading Time: 9 minutes

    Key Takeaways What Makes Cottage Insulation Different from House Insulation? A seasonal cottage often begins life with very different assumptions than a full-time home. It may be built for summer comfort, not for long stretches of sub-zero weather. That means…

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  • Close-up of seasoned wooden table surface.
    Home Exteriors Outdoors

    Why Pressure-Treated Wood Rots (And What You Can Do About It)

    BySteve Maxwell March 27, 2026March 27, 2026 Reading Time: 5 minutes

    Pressure-treated wood is the most common and economical lumber for decks, fences, pergolas, and many other outdoor projects. It lasts far longer than untreated wood, but it is not rot-proof. If pressure-treated wood stays wet long enough, it can still…

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  • Worker cleaning residential septic tank outdoors.
    Home Exteriors Outdoors

    How Often Should Pump a Septic Tank? Signs, Timing & Risk

    BySteve Maxwell March 26, 2026March 27, 2026 Reading Time: 6 minutes

    If you own a septic system, regular pump-outs are one of the cheapest ways to avoid a very expensive and troublesome failure. The hard part is that homeowners hear different advice from different places about the frequency of pump-outs. Some…

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  • Outdoor wedding ceremony in decorated tent.
    Home Exteriors Outdoors

    Building a Fabric Structure: What I Learned (Before You Buy One)

    BySteve Maxwell March 17, 2026March 19, 2026 Reading Time: 11 minutes

    Fabric structure buildings have become a popular option for barns, equipment storage, workshops and agricultural buildings. Compared with traditional framed buildings, they can go up faster, cost less per square foot and provide bright interior spaces filled with natural light….

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  • How to Turn Trees Into Firewood (The Right Way)
    Lifestyle Outdoors

    How to Turn Trees Into Firewood (The Right Way)

    BySteve Maxwell March 16, 2026March 27, 2026 Reading Time: 12 minutes

    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…

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  • Champion generator on farming equipment near house
    Lifestyle Outdoors

    Home Standby Generators Explained: What to Know Before You Buy

    BySteve Maxwell March 9, 2026March 9, 2026 Reading Time: 13 minutes

    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…

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  • Person holding black metal machine part.
    Home Exteriors Outdoors

    Outdoor Wood Boiler Blower Fan Upgrade: Improve Combustion and Heat Output

    BySteve Maxwell March 5, 2026March 6, 2026 Reading Time: 6 minutes

    Outdoor wood boilers rely on combustion air to burn wood efficiently. If the blower fan supplying air to the fire is weak or poorly directed, the wood burns slowly and produces less heat. This can lead to smoky exhaust, creosote…

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  • ATV with trailer carrying rocks and logs.
    Outdoors

    Best ATV Trailer for Off-Road Work (Canadian Walking Beam Design)

    BySteve Maxwell February 25, 2026February 27, 2026 Reading Time: 7 minutes

    Canadian-Built ATV Trailer by Atlantic Outdoor Solutions Hidden in the nooks and crannies of the great big country of Canada, you’ll find modest geniuses quietly doing great work with their hands. Allan Hubley from Wileville, Nova Scotia is one of…

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  • Irwin hand saw on rustic workbench.
    Outdoors Workshop

    How to Use a Handsaw Properly (Irwin Universal 20″ Review & Demo)

    BySteve Maxwell February 20, 2026February 20, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

    Most handsaws for cutting wood aren’t that good. The model in the video above is different. Watch this 12 minute tutorial to learn why this model is so good, and see it in action. Have you ever seen a handsaw…

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  • The Hidden Benefits of Vegetable Gardening and Real Physical Work
    Outdoors

    The Hidden Benefits of Vegetable Gardening and Real Physical Work

    BySteve Maxwell February 13, 2026February 13, 2026 Reading Time: 4 minutes

    There’s more to gardening than just making things grow. In a world where too many people spend too much time looking at screens of one sort of another, getting hot, dirty and tanned is just the thing more of us need. See why right here.

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