Learning to Live

Setting up Shop: Making a Workbench for Making Armor

By Kasey Moomau, Assistant Editor — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:37:26 CST

Setting up a small workshop in my basement for making armor (and other metal projects) is turning out to be a lot of fun.

By Kasey Moomau, Assistant Editor — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:29:33 CST

The doghouse chicken tractor is completed, and my chickens are dustbathing, eating scraps, and being chickens.

By Kasey Moomau, Assistant Editor — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:36:11 CST

Kasey moves his Blue Splash Marans Chickens into a chicken tractor built from a doghouse.

By Kasey Moomau, Assistant Editor — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:17:24 CST

What makes Blue Splash Marans chicks, well, blue? And splash? GRIT Assistant Editor Kasey Moomau talks about his new chicks and their blue genes.

By Kasey Moomau, Assistant Editor — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:41:08 CST

GRIT assistant editor Kasey Moomau takes a trip out to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, for the Old Thresher's Reunion.

By Kasey Moomau, Assistant EditorPhotos by Lauren Holt — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:40:14 CST

Kasey Moomau demonstrates how to cut brick with a hammer and chisel.