http://www.backwoodshipster.com A blog exploring the terrestrial experience through the brain of a wired, slacker savant, jack o’ trades living in the woods of rural America. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:37:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There’s nothing quite like the feeling of being a pioneer. Such is the case with our new recipe for Chaggis, a contraction of chicken and haggis. We’ve succeeded in creating a delicious steamed pudding-style skinless haggis utilizing chicken hearts, livers and, eat your hearts out (speaking of hearts) permaculture friends, ... http://www.backwoodshipster.com/?p=68 Dogs have dog years and Backwoods Hipster counts birthdays by the issue. Yea! One wouldn’t normally associate the turning of summer into autumn with green, as in Green Is The Night, but we have our own way of reckoning around here, so if your own majinashuns aren’t up to task, ... http://www.backwoodshipster.com/?p=67 Here we are again for the next installment of the Home Butchering made simple series (brought to you by Backwoods Hipster & Mark the Butcher). This article will cover what I like to call the medium sized animals i.e. Deer, Sheep, and Goats. These three animals have the same breakdown ... http://www.backwoodshipster.com/?p=66 This manifesto first appeared in the latest edition of SLOW, the journal of the Slow Food movement. BH has many friends in the seed business, all of them small organic farmers doing very fine work in selecting high quality seed. This past year we lost a friend who had been ... http://www.backwoodshipster.com/?p=65 “The illusion of the secret operates in such a way as to position its object outside of discourse and that only through a “breaking of the secret” can we “clear the way leading to it.”-FoucaultDo you ever have the feeling that you’re being watched, or that what you’re doing could ... http://www.backwoodshipster.com/?p=64 Happy Jefferson Day everyone! Finally, a holiday that celebrates freedom, plain and simple. No more 4th of July for the Backwoods Hipster, except to sit around, make a BBQ and get fat, because that’s about all the bloody thing is worth anymore. I’d say that the people of this great ... http://www.backwoodshipster.com/?p=63 The new e-book by editors of Backwoods Hipster and Duende Publishing entitled The Absinthe Alchemist: How To Make Superior Quality Absinthe is now available from AbsintheAlchemist.com. Based on years of knowledge in the herbal product manufacturing industry and tons of research, this volume is certain to find a place in ... http://www.backwoodshipster.com/?p=62 OK, Let’s set the record straight right now, before we even begin. Alexander Hamilton was a stinker! Thomas Jefferson was cool! In fact, Jefferson was so cool that Backwoods Hipster endorses a new holiday, Jefferson Day, to be celebrated on June 30th each year. The Fouth of July has become ... http://www.backwoodshipster.com/?p=61 We had the good fortune of being turned on to Jason Webley by a mutual friend a few years back. Since then we’ve seen him numerous times when on his West Coast tours. Here is the long awaited interview with JW. He plays the Blacksheep in Ashland on May 10. ... http://www.backwoodshipster.com/?p=60 By Mark the ButcherThis will be a two-part article, designed to take some of the mystery and fear out of processing your own animals. Part one will cover birds, while part two will address the larger animals like deer, cow, and pig. Butchering anything is dirty work, definitely not ... http://www.backwoodshipster.com/?p=59