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Goat birthing and raising kids

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building and using wattle fences

By Kathryn Wingrove Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Wattle fences are made by weaving material in and out of posts in the ground. They were often...

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Growing Strawberries

By Patrice Lewis Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 As you read this, the wind may well be howling and the snow piling deep, and you're likely...

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Fireplace cooking cures the winter blues

Modify your oven to bake great bread

How to organize an outdoor canning party

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Drawing the line on timber trespass

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Build a community assistance recharging station

Add solar power to your truck camper

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

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...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

A brief history of health and medicine

By John Silveira Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 As little as a century ago, the average life span in the United States was 49 years. Today...

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Dr. Laura tells her listeners she’s decided to pack a gun

My View: Jury duty: The charge was rape

How do you save freedom in America?

The ‘Curious Guy’ and the ‘Offended Woman’

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

By Allen Easterly Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 Raising quail is inexpensive, easy, provides very healthy low-fat white meat, and supplies the fertilizer you need for...

Where our farm animals come from

Issue #105 • May/June, 2007 We don't know how far back the domestication of animals goes. But we...

Goat birthing and raising kids

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s basically a method of recycling junk wood to make a...

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 While growing up in Detroit, we had no nut trees in our yard (though we did have seedlings before I left home). That didn't stop my parents, though....