RANDOLPH COUNTY, N.C. — This edition of Roy’s Folks is about a man who makes some really neat bird houses. Billy Poole starts by cutting cedar trees off his property and then saws them in his sawmill.

Early this spring, I hung a small bird box from a pergola rafter ten feet from my kitchen window. I had high hopes that either Carolina chickadees or house wrens (both are cavity-nesters) would ...

Food crafts are the perfect way to keep the kids busy. Put your favorite little builders to work on these mini, completely edible bird houses. They even have their own residents — jelly bean birdies.