How to Make Compost in Your Home
Compost is the single most important supplement you can give your garden. It’s a simple way to add nutrient-rich humus to your lawn or garden that fuels plant growth and restores vitality to depleted soil.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Grafting
Late winter is grafting season, and the time of year to graft dormant hardwood cuttings and make some new baby fruit trees! Get your pruners sharpened, your grafting knives sterilized, and all of your budwood cut for another season and start making your own trees. Read on for a step-by-step guide to two easy methods to get grafting.
DIY Hanging Organizer with Pockets
Need a fun, creative organizer for your office, kitchen, or just the living room? This beautiful DIY hanging organizer is a perfect DIY project to organize your home.
How to Make Paper Mache
Make paper mache with kids with all-natural ingredients. You can then use it to create all sorts of cute projects for kids and teens.
How to Make a Dreamcatcher
Have you been wanting to make a dreamcatcher of your own? This beautiful decoration will make your room look cozier and catch those nightmares.
One Tool, Many Uses: Single Edge Razor
Single edge razors can be used for shaving, of course, but they have tons of other handy functions around the house. These multitasking tools are good to keep in the tool drawer, but remember to store them securely so the blades don’t dull and people don’t accidentally cut themselves. It’s also advisable to wipe the blade down between uses and periodically strop and oil it to keep it in good cutting condition. Dull blades increase the risk of injury in addition to not cutting as well.
Top DIY Crafts for Adults
Whether you love to sew, mod podge, paint or hot glue, whether you love working with fabric, tissue paper, wood, ceramics or scrapbook paper, there’s something for everyone, at every skill level.
The Best DIY Projects to Complete on a Sunny Weekend
Sunny days are a great time to get outside and tackle home improvement projects. Whether you are a DIY expert or novice, and have an hour or a whole weekend free, there’s always something you can do outside to improve your home’s appearance (and cross another chore off that long to-do list). Need some inspiration? Here are 10 of the best DIY projects to complete on a sunny weekend.
10 Classic DIY Projects for the Outdoors
It’s time to embrace the warmer weather by tackling a couple of outdoor DIY home improvements. There’s so much to be done, where do you start? How about right here! Browse our collection of ideas for easy outdoor projects that are perfect for a weekend—in fact, some can be completed in just a few hours.
The Best Utility Knife in 2021 According to 17,500+ Happy Shoppers
Utility knives are part and parcel of the toolbox – at home, office or jobs. From breaking down boxes, cutting wires, carpet, drywall, rope, vinyl, leather, flooring, or even in our arts, crafts and hobbies, this indispensable tool comes as the right implement to use over scissors, saw or other knives.
How To Use a Tape Measure
We like this article by Timothy Dale, created under Bob Vila ™ “How To’s and Quick Tips.” The beginning line: “Master this simple yet crucial tool to ensure precision for your projects,” truly embodies what we are here for at Home Planet Gear. We find it very informative, concise and beautifully written for DIYers and professionals alike.
How to Recycle Cardboard
The article starts with the lines: “It’s not as simple as you might think” teasing us to being inquisitive and ready to learn more about the typical activity of cardboard recycling. Marc goes on to describe the advantages of recycling cardboard showing facts and statistics. And then moving towards the point of the write-up: to describe the proper means of recycling this material.
9 MORE Cardboard Crafts Ideas – Useful In and Around the Home
We found other repurposing avenues for cardboard.
7 Cardboard Crafts Ideas – Useful In and Around the Home
We present this list, primarily, with recycling in mind. The main material is, of course, cardboard which practically does not cost anything – it is an abundant material. And having said that, we also have economy and usefulness in mind.
9 Practical Cardboard Uses In The Garden
Cardboard is certainly a welcome sight in the eye of the gardener.
Often free and fairly ubiquitous, cardboard is a biodegradable and earth-friendly material that enriches as it breaks down.
Attracting Butterflies and Hummingbirds to Your Garden
Attracting butterflies and hummingbirds to your garden is as easy as planting the flowers they like. Plant enough of their favorites so that they can find them easily and return often. But hummingbirds and butterflies need more than just nectar, like water and shelter.
How to Attract Bees and Other Pollinators to Your Garden
Every garden needs pollinators and bees are among the best. Without them, there would be limited flowers and even fewer fruits and vegetables. Since bees add more than a soothing buzzing sound, it’s worth putting some thought into making your garden inviting for them.
Why Location and Orientation of Your Greenhouse Matter
Running a successful greenhouse starts at the very beginning. Plenty of thought and foresight should be put into every physical aspect of your structure: the choice of materials, their quality, their purpose in relation to your chosen crops, and so on and so forth.
How to Read a Tape Measure – even if you hate math
A tape measure is a very basic tool. It can used in a wide variety of ways from people of all walks of life. It’s actually simple to use and proves to be very valuable when we need to accurately measure an item for a project, craft, remodeling, moving or any number of other uses.
EverSaw 8.0 featured in “Best Hand Saws” video
The folks at Pure Living for Life are living off grid. This is a couple who’ve made a commitment to live a simpler life removed from typical urban living and off the beaten path. They count on their own ingenuity to get things done. They learn how to use tools and ways of doing things themselves in order to live the kind of life they’ve chosen.
Tick-borne disease – prevent bites – learn to ward off diseases
As summer weather develops throughout most of North America, it’s a time when most people love to get outdoors and enjoy the sunshine, the warmth and marvel in nature coming alive. There are plenty of chores and activities that have been put off due to cold and wet weather. With warm and drier weather, the pull to get out is powerful! There is yard work, gardening, hiking and camping, biking and so much more.
Fire Pit – A Project You Can Do Yourself
As signs of Spring begin to appear, if you’re like us, you’re starting to get outside more. We’re looking forward to longer days and being out in nature enjoying the garden, the flowers, trees and night time sky!
How Is a Japanese Style Pull Cut Saw Different?
There are some pretty big differences between Home Planet Gear’s EverSaw 8.0 and the traditional Western saws that most of us are more familiar with. You may not be interested in the Applied Physics behind the differences in saw types, but we think that you will be interested in how “push style saws” differ from “pull saws” with usage. There is much more to it than simply which angle the teeth are pointing.
EverSaw 8.0 Folding Saw Reviewed by Survival On Purpose
The EverSaw 8.0 was reviewed by Bryan Stevens from Survival On Purpose in a video review which was posted to the Survival On Purpose YouTube channel.
Build an underground greenhouse and garden year-round
If you’re living a more natural life style, you likely put in a lot of time and effort to grow a good portion of your own food. Undoubtedly, your gardening activities are very much determined by the weather you experience.
Winter Preparation Checklist – Countdown to New Year’s
Anyone who lives in a cold weather climate knows as cold weather sets in, there are a number of things that need to be done in order to prepare the home and garden for the rough conditions ahead.
We found this article about winter preparation at survivopedia.com which gives a checklist of things to get done between now and New Year’s Eve. Thanks to the folks at Survivopedia.
10 Tips for Surviving the Coming Zombie Apocalypse with EverSaw 8.0
If the world as we know it were to end tomorrow, you would consider yourself lucky to own an EverSaw 8.0 by Home Planet Gear! Here’s why:
EverSaw 8.0 will stay sharp and resist wear, extending its lifespan and, hopefully, yours in an emergency, such as a zombie apocalypse. If you don’t already have an EverSaw when a zombie outbreak occurs, be on the lookout for one when searching abandoned buildings and vehicles. It may just save your life!
Wildfires – Five Simple & Inexpensive Ways to Protect Your Property
With the growing popularity of suburban and rural living, combined with the increase of devastating wildfires each year, the loss of property is staggering.
HOW to Prune Trees
Now that we have learned WHY we prune and the basic guidelines of WHEN we prune it is time to cut to the heart of the matter and get into HOW we prune. Depending on the plant, tree or shrub the techniques differ, in this article we will look at pruning trees.
Pruning, WHEN it should be done
Pruning can sometimes feel like an endless activity. Each season brings different plants into dormancy and dictates the best time for pruning.
DIY – Make your patio private with screens you create yourself
You can make your back yard patio more private with great screens that you can build yourself. It’s easy enough to be creative and combine them with flowers, hanging pots, an herb garden or anything else you would love to have around your patio.
7 Old-Fashioned Skills That Save You Money
While you’re developing your self-sufficiency and perhaps even working towards living off-the-grid, it’s good to remember there are simple, basic skills that are easy to learn and apply that result in saving a lot of money, increasing the skills you need to improve your family’s survival and perhaps could lead to being able to barter for what you need in your community.
Firewood Racks You Can Build for Yourself – DIY
This is a simple and effective project to create firewood racks and keep the firewood you need close to your house. It makes getting the firewood inside a lot easier when it’s cold!
Hooks From Cut Tree Branches – Do-It-Yourself
In our last blog post, we discussed why pruning in your forest or garden is important to do. When pruning with your hand saw or loppers, you end up with the resulting cut branches.
The WHY of pruning for trees, bushes and shrubs
As a homeowner, pruning can even be a matter of safety for house and property.
DIY – Enjoy outdoor movies by building your own theater
We came across this image showing a great DIY outdoor movie theater. They made good use of recycled materials including old car seats, PVC and more.
Emergency Supplies – What Non-Food Items to Have
If you’re curious about what you should have available for emergency supplies and not sure how to go about organizing it, check this link for a basic list of non-food items to put into your emergency kit.
Survival – Increase your chances with urban survival skills you can practice now!
Perhaps you’ll never need to use survival skills. But, it certainly can’t hurt to be prepared. Isn’t it better to ensure you and your family members know how to survive no matter the situation they find themselves in?
Self-Sufficiency – a route to being self sufficient
Check this article at a great site discussing preparedness and how to go about moving towards self-sufficiency. Not doom and gloom but preparation with optimism! Thanks to Backdoor Survival for an article that lays out simple, do-able steps to take to ensure you and your family can prepare and become more and more self-sufficient.
The EverSaw 8.0 folding hand saw great for tree pruning, camping, hunting, survival
The EverSaw 8.0 is an exceptional folding hand saw useful for a variety of purposes. It’s small enough to easily fit in the hand allowing for good control.