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Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Woodbarrow

By Setanta O’Ceillaigh When I first abandoned a slum town and fled back to the countryside I gathered and carried firewood with a laundry basket....

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

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

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

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...

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

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

Caring for your chickens in winter

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

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Glazed carrots with peas and onions

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

A canoe livery — An honest, clean business

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Battery powered weekend retreat

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

By Massad Ayoob Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Jeff Yago, Backwoods Home's energy writer, recently completed a couple of concealed carry handgun courses. The classes apparently...

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

The light at the end of the gun

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

We don’t need no steenking 2nd Amendment

The Coming American Dictatorship Part XI — The Tenth Amendement Movement

Is it time for an education revolution?

Science and truth. Are they related?

Raising rabbits for profit

By Carrie Peterson Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Whether or not you are fond of rabbit stew, raising rabbits for meat can be a great experience...

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

By Jackie Clay Issue #111 • May/June, 2008 It goes without saying that preparedness is not for "radicals" or "weirdos" anymore. I picked up a preparedness...

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

How we found our remote backwoods home

Turn your passion into a business

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

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 and cucumbers thrown in. But a whole lot of folks,...

Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet. These beneficial bacteria promote good digestive health, strengthen the immune...