If Smith were a moving image we hope it'd look something like Etsy's series 'There's no place like here'. One of the latest short films features Skip Brack, owner and 'head tool picker' at the Liberty Tool Company. 

In this week's 'How To' Rohan stands in the cool water, puts a stick in the air and talks about baiting the fly fish.

Being entirely self-sufficient in 2011 is essentially impossible, but attaining some measure of sustainability can be both financially advantageous and good for the soul. Just ask Lloyd Kahn.

Thomas Thwaites is our latest D.I.Y. hero. The guy built a toaster from scratch by digging up iron ore and smelting it in his microwave.

In his second 'How To' for Smith online, Rohan gets into the garden to tell us what to plant now so that we can stick it in salads throughout summer. 

Handmade gifts beat store-bought, hands down. And handmade products beat factory-produced goods, nine times out of ten. Made By Hand is a Brooklyn-based website that documents and promotes the emerging move away from mechanised manufacturing to making things the old fashioned way.

How's this for niche: Daniel Heer's family have been in the hand-crafted horsehair mattress business since 1907. 

Bees are busy. Not only are they one half of the most famous sex education program on the planet, but they're also makers of the sweetest kind.

In his first 'How to' for Smith online, outdoor man Rohan Anderson from Whole Larder Love unravels the intricate art of trout smoking. Turns out it's dead easy.

In an era of Instamatic filters and high-resolution iPhone cameras pretty much everyone fancies themselves as a photographer, but not everyone works with a large format wet plate camera like John Coffer.