Featured, Garage, Storage, Woodworking
If you’re like me, you have boxes of unorganized “treasures” littering your garage or shop. Your space may overflowth with seasonal decor, automotive parts, tools, knick-knacks, patty whacks, or a stockpile of rawhide bones for …
Written by: Steve
Wine, it’s a magical substance. It has the uncanny ability to make this gravity-defying piece of wood balance at a seemingly awkward angle and, later the same day, making you lose your balance. If you’d …
Written by: Steve
Building Materials, Featured, How To, Sponsored
Go to any gathering where people are congregating outdoors, and look for the biggest group. Odds are, they’re gathered around a fire. Either that, or you’ve found the grill and the keg. And THEN they’ll …
Written by: Phil
DIY Discussion, Featured, Gardening
Last year, I posted an article about double-digging, and how to turn some problem soil rapidly into a healthy garden that you could plant right away. Well, summer has flown by, and although I double-dug …
Written by: Rich
DIY Discussion, Featured, Resources, Woodworking
Last summer, I ran across an article about two poets who were riding a tandem bike from Boulder, Colorado to Beloit Wisconsin. Along the way, they stopped in communities and helped build “Little Free Libraries.” …
Written by: Rich
Architecture, Featured, Gardening, How To
WARNING: Building domes can be very addictive…Building a dome may be one of humankind’s earliest D.I.Y. projects. Dome shelters, framed with the curved tusks of mastodon are among the oldest structures unearthed by archaeologists. Wigwams …
Written by: Rich
Featured, How To, Landscaping, Plumbing
I like water. Without water, there’d be no invigorating shower after a long day of toil, no refreshing dip on a 90° day, and the toilet wouldn’t work quite as well. Also, water is a …
Written by: Phil
For a truly organic way to deter bugs in their relentless pursuit of creating havoc in any garden, why not try out some pitcher plants or butterworts? The carnivorous plants will become fat and sassy, …
Written by: Lauren
We have always been big compost bin experimenters here at Catnip Farm. I have monkeyed around with aerobic composting (no, that isn’t composting in leg warmers), anaerobic composting, turning, not turning… but none of it …
Written by: Rich
Architecture, Building Materials, Featured, How To
Does your dark, tiny kitchen have you feeling a bit claustrophobic? Trying to keep track of other household members, but having trouble due to a pesky, inconveniently placed wall? Fear not! With a bit of …
Written by: Phil