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Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Goat birthing and raising kids

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Build a pizza oven

By Mike Lorenzen Issue #143 • September/October, 2013 About a year ago, my wife and I traveled around Italy by car. We had lots of wood-fired...

Build a wood crib with free materials

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

By Joy Lamb Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 A huge brown beast stared at me as I drove through our apple orchard toward the house. I...

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Constitution of the united States of America

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Cold weather shooting considerations

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

A brief history of health and medicine

By John Silveira Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 As little as a century ago, the average life span in the United States was 49 years. Today...

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

Tackling the real problems that face us

The state of freedom in America

Perspectives on the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin shooting

The Government gorilla in our home

Raising Rabbits

By Linda Gabris Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 If you take pride and pleasure in growing your own organic garden foods and raising your own chemical-free...

Raising your own beef for your family

By Charles Sanders Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 For most homesteaders, the raising of livestock plays a crucial role in the home based economy. The types...

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Where our farm animals come from

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of...

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're so elusive, like the leprechaun, it seems they don't exist....

How to Grow Potatoes

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Potato plants need plenty of sunshine, a well drained soil, and no weed or grass interference. Ideal soil is a loose sandy loam with plenty of humus...