If you want to build a great deck, don't do what most builders do. Too many decks are fastened incorrectly, and most decks drive people crazy with...
One Simple Trick to Make Your Deck Look Great
How to add bull nose profile to your deck, and use a router to create a rounded profile to make it look really nice depending on which router you...
Pushing the Envelope – Home Insulation Options
Where I live in rural Ontario, there are plenty of old-timers who grew up in old, cold farmhouses. They’ll all tell you that, as a kid, it was no...
Press Release – Spring 2020 Harrowsmith Mag
We have a vision! It made sense to run with the momentum of 2020 as Harrowsmith’s visionary year. 20/20 vision is a term that describes...
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Why Does Nikola Tesla Matter?
Nikola Tesla was the odd, overlooked genius of the Electric Age. He was a Serbian genius who despised Edison and Marconi, was badly used by...
The Last Colour Carbon Transfer Printer in Canada
John Bladen Bentley isn't in a hurry. This is a man who spends five days making a single photographic print. A man who has spent 15 years of his...
The Unplugged Woodshop
Down an industrial hallway, in an old, white-walled factory, past a sprouts company, a chocolate shop, and a caterer sits the Unplugged Woodshop....
Straw Bale Comes In From The Country
When most people think of straw-bale construction these days, they visualize soft lines in a distinctly rural setting. They certainly aren’t...
Home Is Where The Hearth Is
The fall of 2013 turned cold the day after the granite was unloaded and tarped, heralding the worst winter of my sixty-one years. But I am getting...
The Inner Bigness of Tiny Homes
Kayla Feenstra admits that the prospect of downsizing from a 2 000 square foot home into a tiny home was no easy task. It took some time, distilling...
Press Release: Almanac 2016
Harrowsmith’s Almanac takes a wide-ranging look at 2016.
Harrowsmith Garden Digest Success Story
The Harrowsmith brand has been enthusiastically embraced by readers across Canada.
Water Tight
Lessons from a plumbingfree home