Nick Offerman

So the things I was building would often be kind of timber frame and post and beam and

And that is how I accidentally backed into fine furniture joinery, was by doing post and beam structures.

I do.

I mean, they were projects with my dad, mainly.

My mom and dad were really little house on the prairie.

We all worked in the garden.

We all helped cook and clean and repair our clothes and maintain our vehicles.

At the time, it was just normal domestic living in our little town, you know.

And so my book, Little Woodchucks, is to try and encourage as many families as possible.

And secretly, it's for the little woodchuck in all of us.

It's not just grownups and kids, because most of the grownups I know also don't know how to use tools.

And it's to try and

Give people permission to break out of the consumerist safety and sense of luxury where everything is done for us by corporations.

All of your life can be curated by app or by pressing a button on your technology.

And when we do that, we give away our agency to these corporations.

And in our lifetimes, that has allowed them...

to make them all of less quality by design so that they can sell more of them to us.

It's true of our food.

Nobody knows who their farmers are anymore, and nobody knows if their food is any good.

If we don't maintain...