Tel: 541-250-5134
Email: customer-service@backwoodshome.com

Anita Evangelista

    Random

    The Home Citrus Orchard

    By Anita Evangelista Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 It may seem like an impossible dream if you live outside of southern Florida, California, or Texas, but you can grow a home "backyard" orchard of oranges, lemons,...
    Read more

    Animals

    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....

    Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

    By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

    Good-bye old friend

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

    How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

    Once a day milking

    Self-Reliance

    Farm and Garden

    Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

    By Charles Sanders Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 Tomatoes are one of the most favored of all garden crops. They originated in South America, but in the early 1500s were taken back to Italy. Today, many...
    Read more

    Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

    By Robert L. Williams Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 My family has made a practice of planting Irish potatoes in the fall rather than in the early spring. We tried it both ways for many years...
    Read more
    Copyright © 2019 Self-Reliance Publications LLC. All rights reserved.