New houses, backyards, an impending apolocalypse... keeping warm in strange or extreme conditions is achievable for anyone with a recycling bin. 

The second recipe from Tassie cooks, photographers and mates Island Menu starts with a hunt for the elusive Striped trumpeter and ends up with a plate of tasty flathead. Samuel Shelley explains.

The slightly wonky owner-builder architecture of the Northern Rivers region has been condensed into an exhibition– and now a book – at Lismore Regional Gallery.

In the ongoing battle between the printed press and the e-book, team Kindle may be gaining ground. But there's one domain where the book will always be king: when you want to drill a ceramic light fixture into it.

You there, city slicker. Know how to gut a trout? Skin a rabbit? Clean and maintain a firearm? If the answer is no, check out these workshops.

Taswegian cooks, photographers and mates Samuel Shelley and Catherine Miller are Island Menu: a hunger-inducing blog about growing, picking, fishing and cooking on the island. Every month they'll send a new recipe our way. Do not read this on an empty stomach.

Nimbin is known as a stoner's paradise, but the village and surrounding region are full of hands-on people. A new exhibition at Lismore Regional Gallery shows off the impressive owner-builder architecture of the area.

It's kind of ironic that coming up with the right DIY project is often a project best left to someone else. Someone in the know. Someone who can explain just how to DIY-it without sending the DIY-er bonkers.

From the mightiest Pharaoh to the lowliest peasant – who doesn't enjoy a good sit? But some places are harder to sit in than others, like the great outdoors, for instance.

Growing your own vegetables is awesome, but digging a goddamn hole in your backyard is awful – especially if you don’t have one. What to do, what to do...