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Switch your family to goat’s milk

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Building and stocking your pantry

By Jackie Clay Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 At the turn of the 19th century, most country homes had a walk-in pantry, as well as a...

Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online...

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Getting out of Dodge — 10 Things I am doing to prepare for the move to the country

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Gee-Whiz: Time

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2016, Backwoods Home Time. We can’t see, feel, hear, smell, or taste it, but we can measure it and we break it...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Introducing the international tax cartel

Which is better, a small town or city?

Understanding the gun debate, part 1

Is that a good pig?

By Kim Dieter Issue #129 • May/June, 2011 Lean ham, roasts, chops, savory sausage, and thick slices of bacon are the reason pigs are raised at...

Raising your own beef

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #175 • January/February/March, 2019 Every time I sit down to enjoy a wonderful beef roast or perfectly grilled steak, I am so...

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Funerals don’t have to be expensive

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

By Jackie Clay Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 During the crispy fall afternoons, we listen often and intently to the weather forecasts. "It's going to be clear tonight," I'd tell my late husband, Bob, and my...

Propagating Plants

By Jackie Clay Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 We all love the idea of having a big, productive garden, full of all the nutritious, tasty foods our hearts desire. But the prices in the nursery catalogs...