Tag: Outdoor

  • Cold Water Immersion

    Cold Water Immersion

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    Embrace the Chill: Unleashing the Joys of Cold Water Immersion In the realm of personal wellness, few practices have gained as much attention and popularity as cold water immersion. This technique is accessible to everyone.  It has been embraced by athletes, mental health advocates, and everyday individuals looking to supercharge their physical and mental well-being. …

  • Barefoot Shoes for Foot Health

    Barefoot Shoes for Foot Health

    The Barefoot Revolution: Why You’ll Love Wearing Zero Drop Shoes for Adventure and Beyond As we focus on the complexities of modern life, it’s easy to overlook one of the most fundamental aspects of our daily existence: our feet. We stuff them into ill-fitting shoes, pound the pavement, and expect them to perform without complaint.…

  • Hügelkultur in Pennsylvania

    Hügelkultur in Pennsylvania

    Hügelkultur in Pennsylvania: Nature’s Raised Bed Years ago, hurricane Sandy turned my forested property into an open meadow with massive rotting tree stumps everywhere.  The trees on my property that used to provide shade and beauty, now produced a steady supply of fallen branches, logs, and leaves.  Since I had already been slowly ‘rewilding‘ my…

  • Planning a Gardening Season

    Planning a Gardening Season

    It’s January!  That means it’s time to start planning the upcoming garden season.  Planning a gardening season is one of the most important factors in helping you guarantee that it’s successful.  In this article, I’m going to describe the process I use in planning a gardening season.  I’m going to assume that you already have…

  • The Joys of Backpacking

    The Joys of Backpacking

    When I stopped working a corporate job, one of the first things I started regularly doing in my ‘new found’ time was to go backpacking.  Why can’t I get enough of Backpacking?  Why do others find it so frightening?  Let me show you some potential ways to loving the many joys of backpacking. Initially, my…

  • Can’t Quoit for Summer

    Can’t Quoit for Summer

    I can’t remember too many summer time outings as a kid where the game of Quoits wasn’t nearby.  It was such a naturally expected feature of any outdoor event that I found it shocking when no one seemed to even know the game when I moved to the Philadelphia area.  I love to play the game and it…

  • Fermenting Solutions

    My email newsletter is entitled Fermenting Solutions. It started years ago as an effort to ‘dog food’ AWeber’s Curate mobile app. It’s a semi regular chronicle of a current project that I’m spending time on… the trials, tribulations and the interesting beverages I’ve had to drink while trying to work through them. You can read…