Off-grid cabins offer more than just rustic charm. Building with locally sourced materials reduces costs, while embracing ...

In this video, Thanh shares his experience of living off-grid for a year in a remote area of northern Vietnam. He discusses ...

In this episode, we install our sink faucet, water filtration, and plumbing systems. After testing, we discovered our ceramic filter was broken, prompting us to wait a week for clean water. During ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, we told you about two 70+ year-olds who were building a cabin at 9,500 feet in Wyoming's Snowy Range.

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 ...