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Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 The thing I like the most about Backwoods Home is that, unlike a lot of other magazines,...

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

Build your own repeating mouse trap

How to become a backyard beekeeper

By Sheri Jones If you’ve been intrigued by the idea of becoming a beekeeper but think you don’t have the space, resources, or knowledge, you’re...

Caring for your chickens in winter

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

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

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

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

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

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

If you can boil water you can make a good stew

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Choose your ammo… police style

Science and truth. Are they related?

By John Silveira Issue #46 • July/August, 1997 It was an argument about science. Dave and I were on one side, Dave's friends Tom and Bill,...

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Is it time for an education revolution?

Lessons for My Children…Chapter 3: Hiding from the government

Biological & chemical terrorism

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...

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

By Jayn Steidl Thibodeau Issue #36 • November/December, 1995 Have you ever had this happen to you? You've opened the refrigerator door for a cold, refreshing...

A contrary guide to feeding animals

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

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Vinegar — A splash is all you need for healthful eating, natural healing, and sparkling home

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

By Patrice Lewis Issue #141 • May/June, 2013 For much of human history, people have tried to prevent things from rotting. Literally every food preservation method we've come up with in the past few thousand years...

Grow Your Own Dishrags

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Some of us are thrifty beyond measure, even growing our own dishrags. None of those flimsy, store bought cotton things for us. Our...