Learn how to build a log cabin from trees on a budget using local materials, traditional hand tools, and hard work while embracing the land. Read more.

Through the decades, the Albemarle County author and master craftsman has built and restored more than 450 log, stone and post-and-beam structures throughout the country. He is widely recognized as ...

The log-cabin council fire is one of the best and longest-burning campfires you can make. Here's how to build one.

Den Outdoors, a new company that sells cabin designs, is releasing a bit of light reading on the subject of actually building the cabin. How to Build a Cabin Book: Built in Nature is a 76-page guide ...

Hear how Colette Kenny of Half-Acre Homestead moved from the city and learned how to build a cabin house suited for eco-friendly self-sufficient homesteading. In this episode of Mother Earth News ...

The walls are starting to go up! After months of tree cutting, we're finally moving forward with new tasks. This video covers our first and only attempt at making our sill log, which will serve as ...

Follow these steps to build a better campfire. Plus: when you should use the tepee method versus a log cabin stack.