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Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

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

Build a homestead Copy Cart

By Charles Sanders Issue #45 • July/August, 1997 I don't know too many homesteaders, gardeners, or small farmers who haven't at one time or another wished...

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

By Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 A new electric fence attached to older traditional wood fencing More and more people are turning to...

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Biological and chemical weapons through history

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Fish — This gourmet food is fun to catch, relatively easy to cook, and healthy to eat

Adventures of a 9-pound cabbage

Cracklin’s — An irresistible snack that you can’t stop sneakin’

Woolen winter mittens in minutes

Lessons learned from an ice storm

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

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...

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coastactually, just that...

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

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

In time of war — The Israeli answer to terrorism

Some thoughts on growing older in the backwoods

Reflections on the Second Amendment

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

By Linda Slate Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 While searching for a large quantity (five pounds or more) feeder for my backyard flock, I kept running...

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

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

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Buying the right emergency radio

How we found our remote backwoods home

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

By Roy Martin Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 A hotbed is a miniature greenhouse that is heated to protect new seedlings from cold. The hotbed differs from a cold frame in that it has an internal...

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #173 • September/October, 2018 When compared to our ancestors, we are very lucky to have readily-available tools. Stores are full of anything you could need and with online shopping, you don’t even...