Nobody wants a cold, moldy finished basement, but that’s exactly what many homeowners get after they’ve spend tens of thousands of dollars finishing...
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
A Cut Above the Rest
After 20 years of sharpening chainsaws by hand with a file, I gave up doing it after I discovered how fast and effective electric saw chain...
How Do You Stack Up?
A big part of heating well with wood is proper wood storage, and how you stack firewood is more important than you might think. I’ve been heating...
How To Fix a Leaky Tap Yourself
Steve Maxwell has a 90 second video lesson on how to fix a leaky tap. You'll know it all when you're done....
TOOL REVIEW: DEWALT 12″ Cordless Sliding Compound Miter Saw
A quick workshop tour of the largest cordless sliding compound saw on the market. See why I’m impressed with this 120 volt DEWALT saw and consider it a good value.
How to Winterize a Pressure Washer FAST
Learn how to winterize a gas powered pressure water in a few ultra-simple steps.
Need a New Home Heating System?
Even homeowners who heat with a wood stove often have a furnace or boiler, too. Eventually equipment like this needs to be replaced, but choosing well isn’t entirely straight forward.
Window Condensation Insights
Next time you're shopping for windows, you'll understand how warmer windows are about more than just saving energy.
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Harrowsmith Magazine Winter 2020
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Experiments in Wild and Fruity Fermentation
How Two Toronto Microbiologists Became Cider Mixologists
Of Hens and Hops
Chickens as companions and a beerless perennial
A Garden With Gravitas
Lethbridge, Alberta’s storied Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden.
Putting Food Security to the Test in Canada’s North
A family’s year-long challenge to live off the land where the Arctic Circle is closer than any major city – 3 skeptical teenagers, 1 reluctant husbandno salt, no caffeine, no sugar and -40 temperatures