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Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Raising cattle on your own place

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Where our farm animals come from

The Forever Floor

By David Lee Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 It is pretty devious starting off an article with an exaggeration but now that I have your attention...

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Grow some winter squash this year

By Lisa Nourse I love summertime — I love the green of the trees, the warm weather, and growing my own food. I especially love...

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

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

Just for Kids: Some pioneer recipes

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Building and stocking your pantry

Just for Kids: Visit the great prairies

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

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

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

Terrorist attack! Was this predictable?

My View: Three Cheers for Free Enterprise

Bovine basics for beginners

By Patrice Lewis Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 Congratulations. You've escaped the city life and are now the proud owners of your little plot of rural...

Raising cattle on your own place

By Charles Sanders Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Winter won't last forever. It won't be long before spring will arrive and pastures will start to green...

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Buy your country place from the government

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #173 • September/October, 2018 When compared to our ancestors, we are very lucky to have readily-available tools. Stores are full of anything you could need and with online shopping, you don’t even...

Slug Zapper

By Joel Winters Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 I live in a small clearing in a big forest. This is on the rainy side of the mountains in the Cascade foothills. Slugs are underfoot nearly year-round...