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. 

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.

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.

We’d never heard of a ‘fleshing wheel’ until we spoke to taxidermist Ryan Hanley for Smith Journal volume one.

You can study at fancy schools for years or you can just start making stuff at home. Butch Anthony chose the latter.