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Top Chicken Coop Planning Ideas
You might wonder, with food prices increasing, if it is time to raise laying hens. Laying hens can be a hedge against food inflation. Especially if...
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Innovative Window Ideas to Upgrade Your Home
Innovative window ideas can upgrade your home, add curb appeal, and increase home value. When we think of windows we think of letting in light and ...
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Creating An Edible Landscape
Creating an edible landscape for your home has many benefits. Not only do you refresh your landscape look, but you also have access to fresh and he...
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Planning Your Backyard Oasis
The weather has turned cold, and it's a great opportunity for planning your backyard oasis for this spring. Building or adding to your backyard to ...
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Save Money While Building Community
We want to share some ideas today that are a double-win, which can save you money while building community. Both are good strategies that produce t...
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Easy & Natural Pest Control Methods
We share some easy and natural pest control methods that can make your life easier this winter. t’s cold outside, and your home is warm. A great co...
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The Economics of Raising Laying Hens
You might wonder, with food prices soaring, if it is time to raise laying hens. Laying hens can be a hedge against food inflation. Especially if yo...
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Fall DIY Home Improvement Projects
We are in the last days of summer, headed into fall, and it's a great time for quick DIY home improvement projects that can beautify your home an...
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Create a Bee-Friendly Garden
Bees are essential pollinators for many plants, including many fruits, vegetables, and flowers. When you attract bees, you ensure that your plants ...
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Money-Saving Ideas for Winter Home Preparation
We are well into fall, and many of us are thinking ahead to winter. It's time to get our home and outbuildings ready for more severe weather. We sh...
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Preserve Food to Lower Your Grocery Bill
Learning to preserve food is important for extending shelf life, preventing spoilage, lowering food costs, and ensuring food security for your fami...
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Life Skills to Teach Our Children
Over the last year, I've realized how important it is to teach our children basic life skills they won't learn in school. Many of these skills as a...
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Benefits of Planting Trees
Trees add so many benefits to your property and the surrounding environment. Trees enhance curb appeal while increasing property value, they improv...
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Build a Treehouse This Summer
Some of the best memories children have been made in their treehouse. A treehouse is a great getaway for teens, a place for young kids to use their...
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Great New Products & Food Resiliency
Having a greenhouse on your deck or backyard helps you grow food for your family year-round. We will be carrying sizes as small as 4 feet, which co...
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Cold Weather DIY Projects
Across the nation, we are dealing with cold weather, storms, ice, snow, and lots of rain. When you think of DIY projects, most of us think of the o...
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Building Resiliency & Community Safety
The seasons have changed, and most of our country is now dealing with rain, snow, sleet, and inclement weather. On one of those rainy nights, we st...
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Your Shed to Granny Unit Conversion for Passive Income
Why would you want to convert your shed to a granny unit? The reasons are as varied as people's personal situations. The most common reason for con...
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Expand Shed Space Inexpensively & Easily
Once you have built a shed in your backyard many people try to think of ways to expand their shed space inexpensively and easily. Many of us have...
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Preparing for Extreme Weather
Unfortunately, extreme weather is a reality these days all over the world, and we offer some tips we've learned through experiencing extreme weathe...
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Save Money with Summer DIY Projects
Summertime brings longer daylight hours so you can fit more DIY projects into your day. We have put together some of our favorite summer DIY projec...
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Planning Your Spring Flower Garden
Planning your spring flower garden is a great winter activity. Adding flowering plants and cut flowers to your garden can be easy and fun. Flowerin...
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9 Wonderful Backyard Water Features
Adding a water feature to your backyard can be a great DIY project. A backyard water feature can add beauty to your backyard and increase your ho...
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Brilliant DIY Cooling Hacks for Tiny Spaces
Homes are easier to cool than smaller spaces because you have more options since you have more space. We offer some cooling hacks that can be used ...
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Winterizing Your Garden Made Easy
When we think of winter we think of cold, frost, rain, and snow. Winter seems to be a time to hunker down indoors, but it's also a wonderful time t...
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Save Money While Reducing Food Waste
Grocery prices have gone up a lot over the last few years. Most of us are trying to waste as little food as possible. Also, we would like to see le...
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Easy Backyard Cash Crops
Would you like your backyard landscaping to beautify your property and earn you cash at the same time? Not such a novel idea and we offer you some ...
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Simple Tips to Winterize Your Shed
Winter is quickly approaching, but there is plenty of time to prepare your shed for winter and the snow, rain, and wind that comes with the season....
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Storm Preparedness Makes Great Winter DIY Projects
We have all seen multiple types of storm or emergency situations unfolding across the United States last year and this year. If you haven't already...
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Your Backyard Can Make You Money
Some of the simplest answers to increasing your family's income lie in your backyard or on your land. Making use of what you already have is like f...
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Staying Cool During a Hot Summer
We are having the hottest summer in recorded history with millions of people under heat advisories month after month. Summer is wonderful with its ...
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Great Ways to Use Reclaimed Wood in DIY Projects
Using reclaimed wood makes for great DIY projects and takes a good-looking project and lets your project have a unique designer look. Reclaimed woo...
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Great DIY Valentine's Day Presents
DIY builders have so many more options for presents year-round, but especially on Valentine's Day than people that don't do their own building and ...
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Home & Shed Natural Pest Control Tips
It's cold outside and your home or outdoor shed is warm and cozy and a great place for a pest to call home for the winter. This is a great combinat...
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DIY Tips & Recipes When You Have Too Many Vegetables
We've all been there either through over buying vegetables at the store, the farmer's market, or because we suddenly have a bumper crop of vegetabl...
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Save Money & Be Creative Using Regifting for Holiday Gifts
The holiday season has the largest sales volume of the year and many people overspend during the holidays. This year probably more than ever you ar...
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Beautiful DIY Fence Ideas
Adding a fence to your property can fulfill many different needs. We share with you today many DIY idea fence ideas. There are as many reasons why ...
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Great Spring DIY Building Projects
Spring is a great time to relax doing DIY projects around your home and outdoors. Our customers have so much talent and creativity and spring is a ...
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Beautiful Home Entrance Gate Ideas
The front of your home greets you when you arrive home and it is also what gives people the first impression of your home from the street. Building...
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Treehouses Are a Memory Making Gift
Treehouses are what build incredible childhood memories! But most of us would admit that we're also building the treehouse we never had as kids. Tr...
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6 Easy Weekend Fall DIY Projects
The changing of the seasons is coming soon, leaves are turning and the days are getting shorter. Fall is a great time to do DIY projects, the days ...
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How Your Family Can Beat Inflation
If you have gone to the grocery store in the last couple of weeks, you might be having sticker shock. You, like many people, probably have been w...
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7 Tips for Well-Ventilated Sheds
The seasons are changing, the weather is cooling, and now is the time to make sure your shed or outdoor building is ready for winter. Winter and co...
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Great Pumpkin Keeping Secrets
There is one fall activity most families enjoy and that's going to the pumpkin patch and picking pumpkins. Pumpkins make great fall decorations, no...
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Benefits of Building A Multi-Purpose Shed
Building a multi-purpose shed has many advantages. One of the first benefits is lowering building costs. If an outdoor shed can serve many purposes...
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Create a Backyard Dog Recreation Park
f you have a dog and you want them to exercise and have fun during the day building a dog recreation park in your backyard goes to the top of your ...
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Adding Fun to Your Backyard with Summer DIY Projects
Summer is quickly approaching and temperatures are starting to rise. This is a great time to think about DIY projects that are easy, inexpensive, a...
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Playhouse to Chicken Coop Conversion Is Made Easy
Building materials just keep going up in price, so building a playhouse that is convertible or can be repurposed is a great way to extend the longe...
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Helpful Tips to Maximize Garage Space Inexpensively
Your garage can easily become a catchall for everything that is overflowing from your house. Your garage can easily become crowded and a disorganiz...
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