In this episode of our Log Cabin Project, we discuss our recent two-week absence and provide a brief tour of the garden and ...

At the age of 81, Charles “Mac” McRaven still can swing a goosewing broadax with the authority of a young Abe Lincoln. Through the decades, the Albemarle County author and master craftsman has built ...

Summertime and the living is, well, hot—which makes a roaring campfire a bit of a problem. But if you lay the right foundation, you can build a great summer blaze that puts out plenty of light with ...

In this first episode, we test our new tools by felling, delimbing, and debarking our first tree. We also improve our road by removing troublesome rocks. #TreeFelling #OutdoorAdventure #RoadImprovemen ...

Depending on your point of view, living in a log cabin may seem positively dreamy — or like a nightmare. If it’s the latter, you’re probably imagining a cabin without electricity on the frontier. If ...

Ron Herbig’s handmade cabin in remote northeastern Washington. (Photo contributed by Ron Herbig) In the 1960s, while in college, I read “Walden” by Henry David Thoreau. He built a log cabin, lived by ...