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Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #27 • May/June, 1994 When I graduated from high school in 1960, my father wrote in my autograph book, "When you get...

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 When you mention "garden," everybody immediately thinks of sweet corn, green beans, and tomatoes, with a few peppers...

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

The greatest American who was never President

The return of home emergency shelters takes on a dual-purpose approach

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

How we found our remote backwoods home

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

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

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...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...

How America can be saved from stupid people

Confessions of a former liberal

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

By Allen Easterly Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 Raising quail is inexpensive, easy, provides very healthy low-fat white meat, and supplies the fertilizer you need for...

Home Dairying

By Marcella Shaffer Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 There is a big difference between home dairying to produce food for your family and dairying to sell...

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

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

The 7 core areas of preparedness

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There are several benefits to having a spot to start your...

Gardening the Year ‘Round

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...