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 big deal to wake up on a winter morning, go...
Drover’s Way Farm
Sheep herder Sarah Loten takes us behind the scenes of summer pastoral work. Summer days begin and end with herding sheep on Drover’s Way Farm. It...
Cordless chainsaw – you won’t believe how well this works
Click and see what this tool can do on a single charge.
Summer Made Simple
Oh Summer! At long last, we bask in warmth and enjoy potluck picnics…and we tackle projects that may be fanciful or practical or a bit of both. The...
Deep Well Hand Pump – Pump It Up!
Water is one of the essentials of life, but for the 5 million Canadians who rely on private water systems, this also means dependency on an...
Chicken Coops and Curb Appeal
Keeping up with the Joneses used to mean sinking money into an in-ground pool for the kids. Then, it evolved into man caves, flex rooms, hot tubs,...
Red Wine Hot Process Soap – Some bright ideas don’t always end up quite as we expect them to.
As with any use of a liquid that has sugars in it for soap making, it is recommended to keep the temperature down by freezing it, and avoid burning...
Raven: The House That Joe Built
It was 1986. A year of superb vintage—an Inukshuk in my palace of memory. In the days when we all wore big shoulder pads and sported Lady Di wings,...
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