by Jennifer Young | Feb 20, 2024 | Butterfly Garden, In the Garden
Whether you are an experienced gardener or a beginner, whether you live in the city or the suburbs, or in the country; whether you live in a house or an apartment, you can help butterflies and pollinators. And they do need our help. Subscribe to the JHJ Newsletter...
by Jennifer Young | Feb 4, 2024 | Building, Design, Projects, Sheds
The back wall in place by the end of Day 5 Welcome to the 4th Installment of Building Rich & Katie’s Shed There are just a few things to know about building a shed wall to support a roof. We will have to solve the particular problems associated with building...
by Jennifer Young | Jan 27, 2024 | Design, In the Garden, Inspiration
Orchids, forests, landscapes, and the visionaries who designed them: these are a few things that inspire me. On a recent trip to the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, I photographed orchids in the Biltmore Conservatory, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. While there, I...
by Jennifer Young | Jan 17, 2024 | Building, Projects, Sheds
The Foundation at the end of Day 2 Building a Shed Foundation Using TuffBlocks In our last post, Designing the Build, I talked about the process of designing the build for the shed and about landing on the idea of building the shed foundation using TuffBlocks. Looking...
by Jennifer Young | Jan 5, 2024 | Building, Design, Projects, Sheds
Rich & Katie’s shed in November of 2023 DIY Shed Designing the Build In May, we birthed a design for Rich & Katie’s diy-wood-sided shed, which I wrote about in Rich & Katie’s Shed I. That design grew from trying to solve a major problem:...