Fencing your land: Four options for keeping critters in (or out).
Steve Maxwell
Steve Maxwell and his wife Mary live on a 90-acre modern homestead on Manitoulin Island, Ontario in a stone house they built with local materials beginning in 1985. Steve is Canada’s longest-running home improvement and how-to columnist and editor of Home and Property. He divides his time working on the land, building things large and small, and creating articles and how-to videos that teach sustainable, self-reliant, hands-on living skills. Steve’s website, Bay Line Road, is named after the rural road where he and Mary live with their five kids.
www.baileylineroad.com
How to Build Your Own Solar Food Dryer
Preserve fruits and vegetables without electricity.
Dimmer Switch Know-How
Turning down the lights is more complicated than ever, but it’s still worth it.
DIY Potting Bench
Homemade beats store-bought hands-down
Get Primed for Easier Water Pump Priming
A hassle-free way to get your seasonal water system working again in spring
Making the Cut
How to turn trees into fuel the right way.
Traditional Smokehouse
Building a smokehouse to preserve your own food is one of those self-reliance skills that can be fancy or simple.
DIY Warm Tile Floors
Why it’s easy to love electric in-floor heating for small installations.
By Steve Maxwell
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Eggs Benedict With Smoked Duck Breast
Recipe courtesy of King Cole Ducks Ltd.
Traditional Andalusian Gazpacho
A delicious 3-step recipe for all of those in-season tomatoes