Wood Stove Vs Pellet Stove: Which One is Right for You?
Both Types of Stoves Have Advantages and Disadvantages. Here’s How to Weigh the Options. The idea of wood heat is appealing to many people. In many ways it can be more economical than conventional heat provided by natural gas, propane and especially oil...
10 Ways to Maximize the Heat from Your Wood-Burning Stove Across the Whole House
Wood-stoves are Space Heaters. Here’s How to Get the Heat into Those Hard to Reach Places. Many of us enjoy the warm, direct heat of a wood burning stove. At times they over-heat a room and we have to adjust dampers, flues and stove-vents to manage the...
Home Solar Power 101
Here’s What You Need to Know About Home Solar Power and How to Get Started How many of us think solar power is a good idea but just never seem to get around to it? Well maybe it’s time to take the first step towards solar. It doesn’t have to be expensive...
Natural Materials You Can Use in Place of Goose Down
When it Comes to Insulation, Goose Down is the Champ. Here’s How to Find Natural Substitutes that are Just as Good. There’s a reason Goose Down is found in so many sleeping bags, parkas and pillows. It has proven over centuries to be one of the best...
How to Restore Early American Lumber and Carpentry Tools
It’s Time to Get Those Antiques Off the Walls and Back into Our Hands Believe it or not, there was a time with no power tools. Everything was done by hand and the only power was muscle and intelligent leverage. It was the only way to get things done at a...
Mastering the Craft of Making Jerky
It’s Not Just for Beef Anymore. Here’s How to Explore the Jerky World. It’s hard to say where and when jerky originated. We’ve been drying food for millennia in the sun, the wind and over variations on a fire. One idea attributes the actual word...
