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Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Raising cattle on your own place

Build a graceful footbridge

By Harrison Stone Issue #77 • September/October, 2002 Tap your heels together three times and repeat after me, "There is no place like homeThere is no...

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants...

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Old-fashioned meat pie casserole

Boost your immune system with fast and easy fish dishes

Nursing: A perfect backwoods career

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

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...

A contrary guide to feeding animals

By Beth Greenwood Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 The Purinas, Cargills, and Con-Agras of the world would have you believe that they and they alone have...

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

How to organize an outdoor canning party

How we found our remote backwoods home

Just for Kids: Some farinaceous folly

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

By Jackie Clay Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 Start your garden this year while the snow is still on the ground. I start all of my own plants from seeds. One of my favorite winter pastimes...

How to become a backyard beekeeper

By Sheri Jones If you’ve been intrigued by the idea of becoming a beekeeper but think you don’t have the space, resources, or knowledge, you’re about to be pleasantly surprised. Backyard beekeeping is a lot...