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Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

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

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Build an all-purpose ladder

By Robert L. Williams Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 Figure 7 Figure 8 The story never varies. If I am doing outside...

New invention— The Fencerunner

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

By Edward Love Johnson Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 I began experimenting with mound gardening several years ago, due to limited garden space. Then as time...

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

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

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Old-fashioned meat pie casserole

Stashing Junk Silver for Bad Times

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

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

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

By Claire Wolfe Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 My friend Jack pulled the car into a grassy clearing. We donned rubber boots, fetched a metal detector...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...

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

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Talking to your kids about death

Personal guns getting to be in style

Home Dairying

By Marcella Shaffer Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 There is a big difference between home dairying to produce food for your family and dairying to sell...

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...

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

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

Jackie’s tips for hardcore homesteading

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

By Glenn Willis, Jr. Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Several years ago my sister and her husband had an 8-horse gas-powered rototiller that went belly up. They fussed with it a bit, but couldn't get it...

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of...

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're so elusive, like the leprechaun, it seems they don't exist....