A new garden joins our homestead

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On the east side of our house, beyond where we will be building the new entryway/laundry room/green room, there was a humpy bumpy, rocky area. Ugly! There were stumps, logs and other...

Harvest is starting

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Although we have just got a few ripe tomatoes, I'm starting in canning in earnest. I already did my batch of rhubarb conserve, then on Friday, I went out and picked all of our...

Great News! Backwoods Home Magazine will be back in print!

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I just got an e-mail from Dave Duffy, the publisher of BHM saying his son, Sam, will be re-launching the print edition of the magazine. It will be the same as before with all...

Another “interesting” summer!

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What a way to start summer, and this blog! As you may have read in Dave’s blog, we had a very close call with my son, David, 16, the 3rd of July. What started...

I’ve been canning…and shooting photos for the new book

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While all the major writing has been done on the new Backwoods Home book on growing and canning your own food, I still had two photo shoots to do, showing the steps of both...