Off-grid cabins offer more than just rustic charm. Building with locally sourced materials reduces costs, while embracing ...

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Tasha Zemke is Outside magazine’s associate managing editor and a member of the Outside Online travel team. She's also an avid world traveler. Josh Drinkard always wanted to build his own cabin.

In this episode of our Log Cabin Project, we install a compost toilet and drill a hole for the ventilation tube. We apply three coats of oil-based varnish to protect the white pine floorboards, ...