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Our Tips for Maintaining Your Vortex Optics in Canada’s Diverse Weather

Vortex optics make an excellent choice for both outdoor enthusiasts and professionals. Built to withstand rugged conditions, these optics perform well across Canada’s varied environments. However, keeping them in peak shape requires regular maintenance, especially with the country’s unpredictable weather (icy winters, rainy springs and humid summers).

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Basic Tips for Surviving Your First Time in the Wilderness

Before you pick your first campsite and start navigating through the vast Australian wilderness, it’s important to plan in advance all the essentials you will need to take in your backpack so that you can survive. Some survivalist experts like to tell newbies to just rough it up but that doesn’t necessarily mean you should suffer on your first trip. Although you’re going to become better as you put more excursions under your belt, your first trip into the wilderness doesn’t have to be a complete disaster. Here are a few tips to help you prepare.

Our Tips for Maintaining a Clean BBQ Smoker

Our Tips for Maintaining a Clean BBQ Smoker

Having your BBQ smoker ready to go at any time requires you to take care of it in the same way you take care for your car or oven – by cleaning it. Although it’s not the same as cleaning a vehicle, it sure requires regular maintenance in order to keep it working at its best and have your meat taste as good as it did the first time you used your smoker. All that steam and oil mixing together makes grease build up as there’s is no actual burning in the chamber.

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Our Tips for Growing Your Own Produce in Raised Beds

They say “the food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison.” It is true that you are what you eat, and the thing about eating healthy is that it can only make you feel good. For that matter, growing your own fruits and veggies is nothing less than beneficial. Besides giving you the chance to know exactly what you’re feeding your body with, you will also save money. Moreover, gardening is a great outdoor activity that helps you be more physically active while also acquiring new skills and knowledge in the area. There are various ways of gardening, but my personal favourite is gardening in raised beds. Why? Well, growing your vegetables in garden beds will give them good aeration, good drainage, root spreading, less risk of soil compaction, better weed control and the list of benefits goes on and on.