I am so, so, so excited about my first canning experience. Yukon Cornelius gave me a canner for my birthday back in November, and I have been frantic to use it, but we haven’t had time. But this weekend, we are planning to can for the first time! In preparation for our first cans of… Continue reading Easy DIY Canning Shelf Plans
I love love loved this idea for a brooding box that I saw on the web. I think it’s so clever. You can totally lift the upper frame out of the box to clean it. Plus, it’s easily storable. Totally brill. If you build one, please comment below with a picture, and let me know… Continue reading The Mini Brooder Plans for DIY Baby Chick Brooding Box
Here are my first official set of plans! (That were not either drawn up on a scrap sheet of paper or completely impromptu.) I’m hoping to tackle this bad boy myself this weekend. I think (hope) the plans are fairly straightforward and forgiving if your cuts happen to be a teensy bit off. I like… Continue reading Free Raised Garden Bed Plans DIY
I think recycled plastic bottle planters for urban gardens are really cool. You can make them out of some old soda bottles, fastened to chicken wire with electrical ties. You can use different size bottles or all the same size if you want a little more uniform look. There’s an NPR story on them here.… Continue reading Window Farming and Recycled Bottle Planters
When we first got GH&E, they spent a few nights in a dog kennel until we could build them a proper coop. We thought about designing one ourselves, but when it came to making cuts and setting angles with the miter saw, picking materials, adding wheels, we decided it was too much of a headache… Continue reading The Garden Ark Chicken Coop Review
Here’s to a little spring fever in January. It’s about time to start thinking about spring planting anyways, at least down here in the south. So here is a bit of a throwback to last summer’s garden… Last spring I made some garden boxes. These were the first things that I “built.” They are very… Continue reading Spring Fever… in January
This year for Christmas, we built my dad a bat house. Well, it started off as me building my dad a very simple, single chamber bat house. We found the design for this bad boy here. At about two inches deep, this skinny structure can hold quite a few bats. But… while I was in the… Continue reading Bat house
