NEAR LENGBY, Minn.-This is a story about coming full circle. It all started in 1970, when Don Klinke heard about a landowner who wanted pine trees planted on a piece of ground in Clearwater County ...

SUMMIT COUNTY ” Along with composting chips from dead lodgepole at the landfill, turning them into pellets for fuel in Kremmling and lathing logs, another Summit County resident has found a way to use ...

In this episode, we continue building our tiny off-grid log cabin in the Canadian wilderness using only hand tools. Winter reappears, but we take advantage of the relatively warm weather early in ...

In this episode of our Log Cabin Project, we prepare our land for building a tiny log cabin from scratch using materials sourced from our land and hand tools, with no chainsaw involved. Accessible ...

Puzzle boxes, not pastry, fill the antique pie safe in the corner. Pieces of the next-up puzzle cover the surface of a vintage farmhouse table. An even bigger puzzle surrounds all of this: an 1800s ...

In 1978, my lifelong friend and I decided we wanted to build a chinkless, scribed log building. Culturally there was a "back-to-the-land" movement going on, and I had 80 acres of land in the Hibbing, ...