10 Critical Questions To Ask Your Insurance Agent Be prepared for the worst by making sure your insurance agent has you covered in these 10 areas.
Prepper’s Guide To Safes For most of us, safes are the most practical way to protect firearms and other valuables from theft and natural disasters.
4 DIY Outhouse Basics When nature calls at your backwoods getaway, let our experts help you get down to business!
Going High Tech In Rural Settings For those of us living the rural life in the country and struggling to make ends meet, the lure of employment “just a mouse click away” can be tempting.
Solar Kiln Wood Dryin’ Jim Birkemeier’s solar kilns keep his energy costs way down. The large windows are made from clear thermal poly film, the same material used in greenhouses.
How To Safely Bore Cut A Tree Woodsman Jim Birkemeier demonstrates how to safely bore cut a tree, in photos.
Straw Bale Garden Secrets The typical straw bale is three- to four-feet long and about 15 by 20 inches high and wide.
LifeStraw: The Lifesaving Backwoods Straw As long as you have a LifeStraw tucked away in your pack, and a natural water source around—a stream, lake, river, even a mud puddle—you are good to go!
The Log Wheel Deal: Transporting Large Loads By Tom Irons At 67, my continued life in the wilderness depends on using my body wisely. Jeanie and I still build with logs, but my spine will no longer…
How To Sharpen And Peen A Scythe Klaus sharpens his scythe blade with a whetstone. The stone is usually pocketed in a holder of plastic, metal or cowhorn that holds water.
Fall Leaves: Blow, Vacuum And Mulch! Kids are back in school, the air has gone from hot and humid to crisp and cool and the leaves have changed from green to enchanting shades of orange and...
Cribbing And Peeling Logs Hand-peeling logs add richness and subtlety to their appearance no machine can duplicate. It leaves every log with hundreds of subtle facets that each catch the light in its own…
How to Join Louisiana’s Alligator Wild Harvest Program Hugely successful, Louisiana's alligator wild harvest program is used as a model by other states to manage and conserve wild alligators.
Growing A Hop Co-op Business Beginning with a handful of friends, the Hop Co-op is now the first choice for local home brewers in the know.
Make Your Own Bodger’s Charcoal Rather than let scrap go to waste, turn it into charcoal to smoke meat using a smoker assembled from scrap junkyard parts.
Lessons Learned At Joy Creek Nursery Make amends with your tough topsoil using gravel, compost and some TLC!
How To Keep A Bad Back In Good Shape After 30 years working as a mechanic, Mark Crespo’s back isn’t doing well. A blown disc was surgically removed, and even minor missteps can put him out of commission.
