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Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Getting logs

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • March, 2004 Online Exclusive April 2003 Attention: Would-be loggers. There have been changes in policy at the United States Forest Service...

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

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

Plant Once Harvest for Years

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 Year after year we start seeds, till the ground, plant, weed, harvest, then tear it all out at...

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

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

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

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

The greatest American who was never President

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Small Town America: Thermopolis, WY — Horses and hot springs

Battery powered weekend retreat

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

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...

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

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

Science and truth. Are they related?

Biological & chemical terrorism

Slaughtering and Butchering

By Dynah Geissal Issue #23 • September/October, 1993 Fall is butchering time, a period of joy in the harvest of the year's work and of sadness...

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...

Finding the best dog for the country life

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

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Where our farm animals come from

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 After originating in the semi-arid regions of the middle east, espaliering (is-'pal-yer-ing) became a commonly employed fruit tree growing method of the Greco-Roman world. Later, during the...

Gardening Tips and Tricks

By Charles Sanders Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 Gardeners are an ingenious lot. Trial and error, time, study, observation, and experience all help us to come up with ideas that result in better gardens, more produce,...