Dessert: No mould for your Yule log? No problem! This log is easily assembled by hand with ladyfingers, a light mascarpone ...

In the previous entry, we discussed debarking spuds and drawknives. We’re going to continue discussing other ways to prepare your logs for the next step in log cabin building. This time we’re going to ...

In this episode, we fell one of the tallest trees so far, resulting in two solid logs. The larger log was too heavy to lift, ...

Mark Weyer is learning the art of cabin building from an unlikely source: his dead grandfather. Weyer’s grandfather, Joseph Lescarbeau, was a lumberjack in the St. Croix River Valley in the late 1800s ...

Bringing the Yule log or Christmas log inside is a custom that goes back for centuries. Called a buche de Noel in France, this large, well-dried log was decorated with greenery and brought into the ...