How We Shower Outside in Winter
We’ve tried a number of setups for showering outdoors, having…
How to Tap Maple Trees to Make Syrup in Your Backyard
Tapping trees at home and making your own maple syrup…
Get Started Growing Mushrooms on Logs with Plug Spawn
Because our yurt is located in a small clearing surrounded…
[2022] Off-Grid Outdoor Shower with Propane Water Heater
After two years of living in our yurt, two years…
Tapping Birch Trees for Birch Syrup
If you’re wondering how to tap birch trees to evaporate…
Backyard Sugaring: Collect Maple Sap with Five-Gallon Buckets
A small-scale maple sugaring operation like ours—basically, backyard maple sugaring—doesn’t…
How To Make a Cheap Maple Syrup Evaporator for Under $50
We made this basic and cheap DIY maple syrup evaporator…
Rustic Standing Desk Design — Under $100 and Easy to Build
I’ve now built two rustic standing desks for a couple…
How to Build Solid, Simple Sawhorses in Under an Hour
A good set of sawhorses is indispensible. Somehow, though, we…
How to Clean an Aquacera Ceramic Water Filter
The Aquacera Traveler XL water filter is ridiculously easy to…
