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...

I’m hunting up my pepper seeds and my jiffy pellets

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It's mid-February (does THAT seem possible?) and pretty soon I'll be starting my peppers and petunias. They take a long time to get big....

Hey! Spring’s back

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After a week of back to back blizzards, the sun came out and the temperature climbed to 50 degrees today. It was SO...

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...

Hey everyone, there was a mistake in the photo in the recent nut article

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We made a mistake in the current issue, Issue No. 149, September/October 2014. In the article titled “Nut trees on your homestead,” we inadvertently...