Danny and Katherine built a gorgeous house made of cob – a sustainable and natural material made from sand, clay, and straw. You’d never know that a house made from such material could be so beautiful! Cob building gets its name from the Old English term for “lump,” which refers to the lumps of clay-rich […]
A rock oven works by collecting heat from fire inside the oven rather than let it escape to the environment. A stone or rock oven still uses primitive technology, but it is a more advanced form because it’s not just using fire by itself, and it needs to be built which takes engineering know-how. Rock […]
In this virtual foraging walk, Sergei Boutenko demonstrates how to find, identify, and eat 25 common weeds and wild edible plants. Wild crafting can be done safely and responsibly! Watch this video and learn how. Check it out here… If you like this idea, be sure to share it with your friends and inspire someone you […]
Check it out as we build a cheap off grid cabin using free pallet wood. We saved money building the pallet wood cabin by using recycled pallets. This is a great off grid wilderness project as pallet wood is light and easy to carry into the forest. It is also easy to work with using […]
With canning season on the horizon, Eric and Arielle from Simple Living Alaska started the construction of an underground earthbag root cellar that will soon store their precious canned food and crops from the garden. Check out part one of the build below… In the second video Eric and Arielle complete the underground earthbag root […]
In this video I show you the basic steps I went through to build my 17′ x 50′ commercial hoop house for under $1000. I show you where I acquired materials, how to lay out a footprint, how to install ground posts, baseboards, hoops and purlins. Check it out here… In part two, I explain […]
We built this small off grid log cabin using recycled pallet wood that we collected for free. The aim of the DIY project was to try and save money by building a cabin in the forest on the cheap. Living off grid is something we have always admired, being able to forage and gather food […]
In under fifteen minutes, Roe Sie, from the King’s Roost, shows you how to make a basic bar soap from scratch, using only organic olive and coconut oils, lye, and ice water. Here is the recipe: Organic olive oil: 1,680 grams Organic coconut oil: 683 grams Lye: 337 grams Ice water: 787 grams Add essential […]
This spectacular tiny house is ultra small and designed to travel, but when it’s owner found the perfect parking spot he added on an incredible toilet and luxurious bath-house made from recycled windows. The tiny house is only 4 meters (roughly 13 ft) in length, making it ultra portable, and features a spectacular geodesic window […]
How do you design a greenhouse to overcome poor growing conditions, provide a winter space that can cure SADS (Seasonal Affective Disorder) and extend the growing season? In these articles I am going to talk about how to design just a space… Setting Goals, Site Selection, Aspect Ratio and Shape Part 1 of 4… Recently I gave a […]