Maintaining a healthy garden isn’t easy. If your property has deer regularly visiting and making a mess of your garden, you suddenly have a whole new challenge to contend with. Namely, how do you keep …
Aside from being fun and useful, wood stoves can be pretty tricky in terms of technique, cleaning, and methods. For instance, most stoves don’t come with a tell-all guide of what to do and what …
Spring is fast approaching. With the warmer weather, rainfall, and snowmelt comes a treasure from the underground fungal network–morel mushrooms. Each spring, countless mushroom foragers head out into the forest hunting for the fungal delicacy. …
Regardless of how useful and charming they may be, wood stoves can produce a lot of ashes. Many wood stove users aren’t too sure about if and how they need to dispose of wood stove …
Fatwood is an incredibly useful and natural fire-starting tool that can be used almost anywhere. It traditionally consists of some sort of rich wood that has a naturally high concentration of resin included. Even though …
Beavers live across a wide range of marshy areas and lakes across North America. If you’re looking for new game to hunt, beavers can be an ideal catch since they’re often considered nuisance animals due …
If you see some deer stumble onto your property, you might be tempted to offer it a snack, reaching for whatever you have on hand. There are plenty of videos online of people doing just …
We may eat chicken all the time, but roosters are rarely on the menu. Although we may not usually as the question, are roosters good to eat? Unlike hens, roosters aren’t bred to produce lots …
Perhaps you’ve noticed your stove is not heating the room as well as it used to. Perhaps, even with the fire raging, you need a coat. Maybe the wood seems to be burning faster than …
With their rustic charm and utilitarian prowess, wood stoves have become increasingly popular among homesteaders and heavy-duty campers alike. With this in mind, they also can have some drawbacks as well. For instance, wood stoves …
Wood stoves are incredibly useful appliances; they offer all of the utility of a stove, with all of the comfort and charm of a campfire. Even though they are widely used among outdoor hobbyists, they …
Trying to get into the world of wood stoves can be a rather confusing process. In addition to learning how to use one, and the proper fuel to use with one, you also have to …