For People Who Like to Sweat, Swear & Do Stuff

From how to make your own Starbucks Latte to building a chicken coop, browse hundreds of DIY tutorials and How-To Guides covering Food, Garden and Home projects you had no idea you needed to do.

🎃☕️IT'S AUTUMN🍁🍂

FALL FOOD

FALL PROJECTS

HOW-TO TUTORIALS

Get them done now so your season doesn't suck later.

GARDENING

How to start your very first full vegetable garden or learn how to successfully grow potatoes, tomatoes, asparagus and so much more.

"To call planting a seed gardening is like calling boiling a pot of water cooking. Gardening is everything that comes before and after the seed is planted."
karen bertelsen

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BACKYARD HACKS & INSPIRATION

Bad Day? These'll Make You Laugh.

At the very least you'll grin at these stories of my misfortunes.

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About Karen

Karen Bertelsen standing on a chair hammering in an electric fence post.

My name is Karen Bertelsen and I was a television host. In Canada. Which means in terms of notoriety and wealth, I was somewhere on par with the manager of a Sunset Tan in Wisconsin.

I quit television to start a blog with the goal that I could make my living through blogging and never have to host a television show again. And it’s worked out. I’m making a living blogging. If you’re curious, this is how I do that.

So I’m doing this in reverse basically. I’m the only blogger who is trying to NOT get a TV show.

Learn more about me →