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  • Fitting the Fence to the Animal: Choosing the Best Electric Fence for Your Needs

    Fitting the Fence to the Animal: Choosing the Best Electric Fence for Your Needs

    The right voltage and the right type and number of wires on an electric fence can satisfactorily control poultry, sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, equines, rabbits, deer, foxes, coyotes, and bears. The trick is to get the right voltage and type and spacing of fence wires … Read More

    Farming & Sustainable Living

    by Ann Larkin Hansen
  • Kitchen Greywater: Water Conservation Straight from the Sink

    Kitchen Greywater: Water Conservation Straight from the Sink

    WHAT IS GREYWATER? Greywater is gently used water from sinks, showers, baths, and washing machines; it is not wastewater from toilets or laundry loads containing poopy diapers. Plants don’t need clean drinking water like we do! Using greywater for irrigation conserves water and reduces the … Read More

    House & Home

    by Laura Allen
  • From the Publisher’s Desk: Honest Building

    From the Publisher’s Desk: Honest Building

    Honesty is a trait we associate with humans, and I’d never thought of using it in reference to a building until I heard Will Beemer, author of Learn to Timber Frame, use it to talk about timber-frame construction. Timber framing is the craft of … Read More

    Inside Storey

    by Deborah L. Balmuth
  • The Big Thinking behind Tiny Houses

    The Big Thinking behind Tiny Houses

    In the economic boom time that was the 1990s in this country, the thinking was that bigger was better. Cars were replaced by SUVs that gradually got larger and larger, houses grew, and even fast food was super-sized. Then the bubble burst. As we’ve regained our economic footing and … Read More

    House & Home

    by Gerald Rowan
  • Container Garden Plan: Back to Black

    Container Garden Plan: Back to Black

    A black-based container planting is more than a “because you can” novelty: it’s an exceptionally elegant way to display some truly distinctive and eye-catching plants. When it comes to foliage and flowers, what we call “black” is usually a shade of deep purple to burgundy … Read More

    Gardening

    by Nancy J. Ondra
  • What Is Timber Framing?

    What Is Timber Framing?

    Timber framing in much of the world can refer to any framing system using wood components, but in North America we use it to mean solid timber (greater than 5 x 5 in section) joined together with traditional wooden joinery. It’s a type of post-and-beam … Read More

    House & Home

    by Will Beemer
  • Dear Neighbor

    Dear Neighbor

    Since I don’t mind spreading the good word if it means keeping more things out of landfills, I will tell you that one of my best tactics for sourcing free materials, with a success rate over 50 percent, is to drop mailbox notes. No, not … Read More

    House & Home

    by Derek "Deek" Diedricksen
  • Behind the Scenes — A Photo Shoot

    Behind the Scenes — A Photo Shoot

    Last year, project editor Hannah Fries spent a week at the Heartwood School for the Homebuilding Crafts, exploring her personal interest in the art of timber framing. Now in the process of editing a book on the subject for Storey, she recently returned … Read More

    Inside Storey

    by Hannah Fries
  • Postcard from the Backyard: Caroline Burch

    Postcard from the Backyard: Caroline Burch

    For the past two years the stone walkway going into my garden shed was only half finished. Last Sunday I decided to complete the job. Two hours later, after setting in the final stones, weeding around all the existing stones, and spreading down mulch, I … Read More

    Inside Storey

    by Storey Digital Editors
  • Make a Harvesting Tote from The Backyard Homestead Book of Building Projects

    Make a Harvesting Tote from The Backyard Homestead Book of Building Projects

    You can use this multipurpose tote for ferrying tools into the garden or woods and for carrying berries, vegetables, and mushrooms back out. It’s lightweight and easy to sling over one shoulder so that both hands are free for carrying or picking. And it’s large … Read More

    House & Home

    by Storey Digital Editors
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