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Birding Across the Southern USA  Rethink Rural Blog

Birding Across the Southern USA | Rethink Rural Blog

The South provides the perfect setting for bird watchers. Grab your binoculars and check out some of these places where Mother Nature has provided a...

16 Practical Tips for Building Green on a Budget

16 Practical Tips for Building Green on a Budget

Do you dream of building green…until the reality of a designer green-home price tag sets in?

From Dallas to Prosper: Trading the city for rural life

From Dallas to Prosper: Trading the city for rural life

When Dallas Sports FM Radio 105.3 The Fan Host Ben Rogers approached his wife Kat about leaving Dallas and moving to the country, she thought he was...

Determining Whether You Want a Property  Rethink Rural

Determining Whether You Want a Property | Rethink Rural

When you have looked at a property and asked all of the right questions, there comes a point when you have to answer one question: “Do you want it?”

How to build your first treehouse

How to build your first treehouse

Remember when treehouses were just for kids?

Hunting fashionably

Hunting fashionably

Fashion has sneaked into outdoor sports quieter than a black snake into a robin’s nest. Somewhere along the way, we switched from army fatigues to...

Small Acreage  Big Possibilities

Small Acreage = Big Possibilities

Living the country life doesn’t require loads of land. You can make any size property special and specific to your needs by thinking through what you...

Living on vacation  Rethink Rural Blog  Country Life

Living on vacation | Rethink Rural Blog | Country Life

Some places and things just remind you of vacations. If you grew up going camping, it’s a tent. If you grew up vacationing on a lake, it’s a boat. On...

How to tell you're freezing

How to tell you're freezing

Hypothermia is no laughing matter, yet in a number of ways, it’s a funny ailment. For starters, it doesn’t have to be freezing for you to be...

The  ahem  pee factor of buying country land

The - ahem - "pee" factor of buying country land

I love living in the country. I am writing this article from a shooting house on our land overlooking several hundred yards of food plots we planted...