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Mosquito Repellent Candles from Hillhouse Natural Farms
Located in Kentucky, Hillhouse Natural Farms offers a range of products for the home made from organic flowers and grown in their gardens. We especially like the soy, naturally Mosquito Repellent...
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Seafood for the Garden: Make Your Own Organic Fertilizer
Heading to the beach? While you're there, collect some seaweed to use in your garden. For generations farmers in coastal communities like the Channel Islands have been amending their gardens and...
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Clamshell Planter from Fire Escape Farms
Made of white stoneware, this clamshell on a rope is where your air plants have been dreaming of living. Especially if you hang it in the shower. We spotted it at Fire Escape Farms, where it's billed...
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A Gift From the Sea: Oyster Shells in the Garden
A landscaping material, a nutrient-rich soil amendment, and a natural pest deterrent. Who knew the lowly oyster shell was such a boon to the gardener? Above: The oyster shell works hard in the garden....
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Beach Party: A Carry-Along Barbecue Bucket
Clambake, anyone? Cook your catch over hot coals at the beach in a portable galvanized steel barbecue bucket spotted at Old Faithful Shop: Above: A galvanized Bucket BBQ has a steel grill insert to...
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DIY: How to Turn Flotsam and Jetsam into Wall Art
We've all been there. Enticed by the natural beauty of pebbles, shells, and other treasures tumbled by the sea, we spend our beach vacations collecting and gathering to our hearts' content. Then we get...
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Summer Party Ideas: Cocktails and Caramel Corn
We've been big fans of Brooklyn baker Hannah Kirshner ever since she taught us to make Perfect Cold Brew Coffee. In the new Corner Store Entertaining issue of her Sweets and Bitters Quarterly...
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Summery Pressed Seaweed Prints
As a native Cape Codder, I've always been fond of seaweed. So when I recently ran across designer Karen Robertson's pressed seaweed DIY on Garden Design, I had to give it a try. Above: Any project that...
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Hike of the Week: Oswald West State Park, Oregon
I grew up on the Long Island Sound where the coast is mostly a calm place (mid-summer beach-goers not included). Waves lap gently along the water's edge, the sea breeze barely tousles your hair. On a...
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The Well-Appointed Potting Shed: 5 Baskets as Wall-Mounted Storage
Here's an idea we like: wall-mounted baskets as potting shed or kitchen storage (think pruners, gloves, etc.). Above: Good idea No. 4,354,243 from Martha Stewart; a wall-mounted bicycle basket for...
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A Low-Maintenance Lawn, Right at Home at the Beach
If ever there was a place where a low-maintenance lawn would come in handy, it's at a beach house. While you're there, you have better things to do than wrestle a mower, and when you're not there,...
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In the News: Top 5 Posts of the Week on Remodelista
This week on Remodelista, Julie declared her love for ceramic ice cream cones, Janet discovered the ultimate dishwasher, and Alexa dubbed electric kettles the new "it" countertop appliance. Here are...
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Brit Style: A Proper Summer at Last
August is now well upon us, in what can only be described as a fairly corking summer. Here in GB the last six or seven summers have been pure endurance. Rain, cold, mist, sleet, hail—the works. The...
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Family Camp: Nettly Wood Compound
Off the coast of Washington state, a 25-acre family compound on Decatur Island feels like summer camp: there's whale watching, and sailing, and hiking, and, in the distance, views of the rest of the...
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Red Pig Garden Tools, Hand-Forged in the USA
If you arrive at Red Pig Tools in Boring, Oregon and the shop looks closed, just give the bell attached to the barn a rollicking ring and chances are Bob or Rita Denman will appear and give you a...
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The Fig and I: Tips for Caring for a Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree
Nature has wired us to feel protective of babies, with their oversized, floppy heads. The big, round leaves of a fiddle leaf fig tree make it the house plant equivalent of a newborn. So it was probably...
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DIY: Stalking the Delicious Wild Radish
If you’ve noted clusters of lavender and yellow wildflowers blooming in sunny fields, you might be looking at the delicious wild radish. In late summer and early autumn, foragers seek wild radishes for...
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A Multipurpose Fire Bucket with Scandi Appeal
Norm Fire Buckets come with a removable oil container and can be used for instant bonfires—and, when the weather turns, they can be used as indoor plant pots (the handle makes it easy to suspend from a...
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Earn Your Wilderness Stripes at the Minam River Lodge
I come from a family of campers. But when I was growing up, the extent of our true wilderness experience was as far down a dirt road as our lumbering blue Dodge Caravan could manage to take us. Still,...
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10 Easy Pieces: Fire Pits and Bowls
Create an instant bonfire with these versatile fire pits, perfect for the campsite, the patio, the lawn (but not recommended for use on wood decks or surfaces). Above: Sarah swears by the Cast-Iron...
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