Unfortunately; these 3 red maple trees had to be cut down. They were about 25 feet southwest of the cabin, which is the same direction as much of our prevailing winds. The center tree was half rotted out, as you can see in the photo. We’ve had some high winds this spring and taking care […]
Since we live in the woods, we knew that we would be clearing some areas for buildings, gardens, etc. We bought a Stanley CH7 chipper/shredder last year and have been giving it a workout. To make use of the chips, we needed a good way to catch them since they tend to blow all over
I made a simple foot bridge to cross our small creek. It’s two cedar poles about 10′ long with 2″ thick cedar boards screwed into the poles.
We used some of our excess logs that we didn’t want to burn in the wood stove for hugelkultur garden beds. Below are some pictures with descriptions of how we built them.You can read more about hugelkultur from richsoil.com, here. The main advantage to hugelkultur is that as the wood rots it will hold water
My brother Brent has moved here from Texas and his new “Man Cave” finally arrived. I am looking forward to helping him work on it.
My mother wanted a couple of sidewalks built at their place. We used stone that my brother got from his work. Ben, Brent, my dad and I worked part of the day and made good progress. It still needs some leveling out before mortar is added to set the stones permanently, but we have had
We’ve had compost bins since April, 2014, but we’ve done several improvements since then. Here is what the original 3 bins looked like. The original compost bins worked great, but the sawdust and wheat straw cover material wasn’t protected from rain. The finished compost bins. A few of the improvements made are: * A roof
I finally finished the kitchen cabinets in our little cabin. They are made from 3/4″ pine from our chainsaw mill with an inexpensive 1/4″ luan backer. They were super simple to build and very inexpensive. Sarah picked out the green…her favorite color. I used Kreg pocket screws to make the door frames as shown in
Sarah wanted to document the state of our 2015 garden by recording a video at the beginning of July. She does talk briefly about the chicken coops and the compost bins as well. This is only our second year of gardening, so I suspect we will look back at this video and have a few
I am not particularly fond of trapping bees, but these carpenter bees are wreaking havoc on our cabin. Last year the Carpenter Bees made Swiss cheese out of the soffits on the cabin. My dad made a very slick Carpenter Bee trap that I hung right under the still damaged soffit. The first bee of