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Keeping homestead animals healthy

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

Build a ski sled

By Kai Moessle Issue #138 • November/December, 2012 Since my property is almost half a mile away from the nearest road and I can't keep the...

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

By Jackie Clay Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 Although I've been homesteading for more than forty years, there's always something new to learn. (I figure that...

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Make sourdough with wild yeast

How to make money from storage building auctions

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

The 7 core areas of preparedness

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 I take the Springfield Armory rifle out of the box, and savor it. I seldom do that with...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

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

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

The Government intimidation factor and its effect on the health of society

A government with not enough to do, but lots of hungry mouths to feed

Want proof of luck, ESP, and psychic powers?

How America can be saved from stupid people

Build a poultry killing cone

By Allen Easterly Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 You've worked hard and spent many hours raising your pretty flock of meat chickens from eggs or chicks...

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

By Charles Sanders Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 A 450-pound hog will provide a lot of delicious meat. Hogs are raised throughout our neighboring Amish community for...

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

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

Frostbite — Don’t flirt with this sneaky danger

Teach your kids math with the banking game

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Sewing and using cloth diapers is easier than you think

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

By Howard Tuckey Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 In less than an hour last fall, I tilled up a 4x8 foot garden bed and planted 250 seed cloves of Chesnok and Russian Red garlic. I've been...

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...