12 Ways to Use Lavender Around The Home & Garden
I’m a fan of walking in the garden every day, especially in the late afternoon when the sun warms the plants so that all manner of herbal and vegetal smells …
DIY Projects
14 Practical Ways to Upcycle Toilet Paper Rolls
Unless you have a bidet, you likely have a constant stream of toilet paper rolls coming through the home. While you can certainly recycle them or tear them up to …
33 Uses For Beeswax That Go Beyond Candle Making
While bees and their remarkable raw honey generally get a lot of buzzingly good press, we often lose sight of the other amazing gifts they have to offer. Beeswax is …
35 Ways To Upcycle Old Tires In The Garden
Living sustainably is often about finding new ways to use old things. One person’s trash is, after all, another person’s treasure. By reusing and upcycling old tires, for example, we …
How To Harvest Clay For Pottery & Natural Building
Clay is often underneath our very feet, whether we are aware of it or not. Which leads to a somewhat serpentine thought process regarding its ample abundance. Consider for a …
21 Innovative Uses For Plastic Milk Containers in Your Garden
Plastic milk containers or milk jugs can be recycled. But the high quality plastic can also be used in a number of different ways around your home and garden. Before …
77 DIY Projects To Improve Your Self-Sufficiency & Keep You Busy
On a homestead, there are always plenty of things to do. One of the great things about homesteading is that there are almost endless ways to improve your home, garden …
25 Ways To Reuse Old Bricks In Your Garden
If you use your imagination, you can find plenty of ways to use reclaimed materials in your garden. In fact, if you are living sustainably, you should be able to …
8 Cheap DIY Fence Ideas Anyone Can Build
The very first fences were put up in the Neolithic era, right around the time humans settled in one spot and began to farm. Fences provide security and privacy, and …
15 Melt and Pour Soap Recipes Anyone Can Make
If you are keen to make soap, but a little nervous of the processes involved in making it from scratch, melt and pour soap could be the perfect solution for …
21 Brilliant Ways To Reuse Glass Jars
All throughout the year, glass jars are in season. Pickle jars, mustard jars, jam jars, peanut butter jars, Mason jars… Tall ones, short ones, blue ones, clear ones. Glass jars …
How To Make Hand-Dipped Beeswax Candles
To sit by the flickering light of a beeswax candle is to drift back in time and dream of quieter, calmer days. The dark room, the single flame, the comfort …
40 Genius Uses For a 55 Gallon Barrel
After the popularity of our previous article sharing some of the most useful and creative ideas for upcycling a 5 gallon plastic bucket in your home and garden, we’ve now …
27 DIY Greenhouses For Every Size, Budget & Skill Level
You will find plenty of compilations on the web describing many of the best DIY greenhouses that people have made. In this article, however, we will not only gather some …