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This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Easy awnings

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 A window without an awning is like a lamp without a shade bare and glaring. In my...

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

A house a tornado helped build

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 Everyone likes a good success story, and if I were called upon to name the most successful...

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

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 —...

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Constitution of the united States of America

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

A young couple moves to the country

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Moderate power firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Robert Ruark, the great American writer of the mid-Twentieth Century, was also a big game hunter. One of...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

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...

Bovine basics for beginners

By Patrice Lewis Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 Congratulations. You've escaped the city life and are now the proud owners of your little plot of rural...

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

10 tips for selling your homemade product

By Kristina Seleshanko When we purchased our mountaintop homestead, I was excited to discover four blueberry bushes that were already established on our property. Not all of them were large, but they were an excellent...

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Every person who is striving for self-reliance should, and most do, plant a garden from which to raise a good portion of their own food. But how many...