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Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

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

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

By Maggie Larsen Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 During a binge of spring cleaning, I ventured outside and began to renovate the exterior of my home,...

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants...

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

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Just for Kids: Life in the forest

Lessons learned from an ice storm

Winter in the High Desert — Understanding the music

Making a great rug from the rag bag

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

By Massad Ayoob Issue #163 • January/February, 2017 Click Here to read Part 1 Click Here to read Part 2 As noted in the two previous parts of...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Talking to your kids about death

The Electoral College — How we elect the President

Terrorism in America — The armed citizen’s view

Do rural homeowners need guns for self-defense?

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

By Margaret Wright Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 When we think of a backwoods dog we generally think of a Pyrenees, German Shepherd, or other breed...

Keeping homestead animals healthy

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 As a veterinary field technician for more than 20 years, I saw firsthand the frustration and heartbreak when...

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 While growing up in Detroit, we had no nut trees in our yard (though we did have seedlings before I left home). That didn't stop my parents, though....

Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online seed-savers trading post of sorts — looking for squash seeds....