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Pollinator gardens have been in the news these last few years. Most of the articles focus on monarch butterflies and planting milkweed to support them. But they can be so much more than this and ca...
Hugelkultur: Something to Think About for Fall
Hügelkultur. If you don’t speak German, it’s pronounced ‘hoogle-culture’. What it means is “hill culture” or “mound bed”. While a normal garden bed is flat, in hügelkultur, the bed is in the shape ...
How to Have A Successful Raised Garden Bed
You’ve decided to start a vegetable garden and to use raised beds. First, you need to build or buy your beds. They can be made from just about anything. Wood, stone, concrete, any [...]
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...
Axes Mauls and Hatchets From a Third-Generation German Axe Maker
The iron axe was brought to New World by its earliest European settlers and traders. It can’t be overstated how important this tool was to the development of the American frontier. There is perhaps...
Camping with kids can be one of the great pleasures of parenting–we say ‘can’ be, because it can also be tricky, depending on the kids and the challenge level, as well as a host of unpredictable ev...
