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Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Raising your own beef for your family

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

By Robert Van Putten Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 For as long as I can remember, I’ve always wanted a rustic log cabin deep in the...

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Naughty Peppers

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 If you are prudish, narrow-minded or puritanical, read no further as this article...

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Homeschooling through high school

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

The Coming American Dictatorship Part XI — The Tenth Amendement Movement

The meltdown and the bailout: why, how, and what they mean

The attack on Colin Powell prompts questions I’m not supposed to ask

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

Once a day milking

By Patrice Lewis Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 It sounds bucolic, doesn't it? The simple joys of milking your own cow. Fresh milk, fresh cream, homemade...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Buy your country place from the government

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass

By Alice B. Yeager Website Exclusive • September, 2006 Normally, we gardeners tend to make plans to begin planting our gardens during early spring. We select vegetables such as garden peas, lettuce, mustard, radishes, onions, and...

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

By Donna Insco  Issue #158 March/April, 2016 According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website, "CDC estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans (or 48 million people) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and...