Want to grow your own edible mushrooms? All you need is some cardboard, some used coffee grounds – and these simple instructions.

A chap we’re calling Queensland’s Robinson Crusoe has built a hut using nothing but mud, stone and wood harvested with his homemade axe. He shows us how in this mesmerising video.

Matt Clark makes ghost-busting proton packs – not out of cereal boxes and packing tubes, but fully functioning electronics. We spoke to him about the what, the how and – of course – the why of being a Ghostbuster.

Make your own blacksmith-worthy forge with little more than an old soup can and an LPG burner.

These might be the nicest looking homebrew kits we've ever seen. And with recipes ranging from rye IPAs through to wheat beers, they could be the tastiest too.

This month, Grown & Gathered track down a New Zealand bladesmith who makes knives out of junk – and find out the right way to sharpen your slicer.

You don’t always have to spend big to get your hands on good, organic food: just take a walk in the forest. This month, Grown & Gathered share their recipe for stinging nettle and wild mushroom soup.

Wet season needn’t mean wet-clothes season. Not if you’ve got a can of wax, a hairdryer and these handy instructions.

This month, Victorian farmers Grown & Gathered show us how to make our own butter, which might just be the easiest (and tastiest) thing we've ever done.

Just when you thought it was safe to throw out all those old tapes at your parent's place, someone made them rad again.