Talking Woodworking with Jake Hogue
Jacob Hogue is the founder of Oak City Woodshop, a custom woodworking company specializing in both residential and commercial work, based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Interestingly enough, Jacob’s d… Read More
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Spring is coming Get Ready Start Inside
How to Garden Indoors in 6 Easy StepsHere’s some good news for aspiring green thumbs: You don’t need an outdoor space to grow your own vegetables, flowers, or herbs.There is a reason poets and artists… Read More
Which is the Best Knife for You?
A knife is an essential everyday tool and there are as many knives as there are stars in the sky. The vast variety of choices is great, but can be intimidating for the knife novice. Since we’ve tes… Read More
What Does Gardening Zone Really Mean?
About Growing in Your Gardening Zone How to Plant by Zone ‘Bloom where you’re planted’ is a beautiful phrase that appears on everything f… Read More
How to Carve a Wooden Spoon
We’ve all heard the old adage “how to make a statue of an elephant — You start with a block of marble and carve away everything that’s not an elephant.” Same rules apply for carving spoons.… Read More
Raised Bed Garden Design
Whether you’re a rural dweller with plenty of open space or a suburban or urban type with a smaller patch of grassy land, you can enjoy the process and benefits of growing your own food with a rais… Read More
Lake Como Region
Lake Como lies north of Milan and just south of the Swiss border, in the Lombardy region of North Central Italy. Visitors are drawn there by the beauty of its alpine lake setting and its proximity… Read More
Essential Tools for Spring
Now that the ground is thawing and the sun is shining, we wanted to share some of our favorite tools for the spring. Bringing the lawn and garden back from winter dormancy is a yearly ritual that p… Read More
My First Memory of Making
From an early age, I felt drawn towards things I could build. My first real memory of making something was a go-cart when I was about 12 or 13 years old. It was not the one pictured –- which at lea… Read More
Product Spotlight: The Brass Capsule Multi-Tool
Of all the new tools we’ve launched this year, the capsule multi tool is the most exciting. Like most of our other tools, we’ve taken an old and obscure design, and modernized it to be useful again… Read More