Go push your thumb against one of your fence posts down near the ground. If it gives — if the wood feels soft or spongy — that post is dying from the inside, and the paint you put on it is the reason.
Now look at the barn behind my house. The siding is older than my grandfather. It has never been painted, not once, and the wood is still solid after a hundred and forty winters. We have never bought a can of paint to protect a barn, a fence, a shed, or a coop in the whole history of this farm. We use something that costs about twenty dollars to mix a whole bucket of, and instead of sitting on top of the wood like paint, it soaks in and becomes part of it.
In this video I give you the exact recipe my family has used for as long as anyone can remember — including the one extra ingredient most folks have never heard of — and I show you how to put it on wood you already own, even wood that is already painted and starting to rot. I explain why paint actually rots your fence from the inside, why this coating turns to stone in the grain and gets harder every time it rains, and the honest truth about how often you really need to touch it up.
I will also tell you the part that should make you
