Men like to argue, especially online, and especially about firewood. Its an opportunity to let people know that you know about BTUs and Husqvarna chainsaws and the absolute best way to stack firewood. So naturally this is a fiercely opinionated subject; how to dry firewood. I’ve tried a number of approaches over about 8 years
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Everything is easy with the right tools, but you’re probably not going to want to buy a $10,000 sawmill setup to cut just a few boards. So how do you do it? There are lots of ways, and they will be tedious, but it could work. If you’re like me, you want to “use every
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One of my favorite and most successful projects here at Sola was the building of a greenhouse. While the project idea had been floating around my head for a while, I was spurred on one day when I came upon a bunch of used windows for free. A husband and wife couple in the nice
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Well, you can drive down to the Dollar General and buy yourself a 3-liter of off-brand high-fructose corn syrup root beer. Or, you can do better. Here’s how you do better. Making sassafras root beer at home. The tools you’ll need for this are a knife, bowl, pot, stove, sieve, and spoon. The ingredients you’ll
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[This is the first in a series of articles I intend to write. Check back later for articles on making sassafras root beer, drying firewood, picking berries, and various other subjects.] I did a lot of research before building a fence around my yard. Like so many subjects, fence building brings out a variety
