Avoid putting holes in a hide by tanning hides with salt, and learn how to tan a hide naturally for valuable leather goods to use around the homestead. Every rural carnivore knows that home-raised ...

Learning how to tan a deer hide is a rite of passage, cementing blood ties to our hunting forebearers who depended upon skins for warmth and who respected slain animals by never letting any part go to ...

Eighth-grade teacher Kris Schreiner demonstrates removing membrane and fat from an elk hide as part of the tanning and curing process in his class at Kalispell Middle School on Nov. 20. (Casey Kreider ...

You’re not a fur trader, so many of the terms—hide, skin, fur, pelt, and buckskin—used to describe the outer coat of wild game animals may seem interchangeable. (And frankly, a lot of them are.) But ...

We started raising meat rabbits on our small acre homestead, and wanted to honor the animals that feed us by using as much of the rabbit as possible. The innards are buried, and turned to compost. The ...

THE PLAINS –– At the end of the cul-de-sac sits Talcon Quinn's canary yellow ranch, a home that her grandparents built decades ago. It's quiet and unassuming, and thankfully she has known the ...

Somewhere in Minnesota, there’s warehouse with thousands of deer, elk and moose hides in various states of processing and preservation. And throughout the country, there are hundreds, perhaps more ...

A demonstration of early bison hide working habits by anthropologist Billy Maxwell will be presented at Chief Plenty Coups State Park on Saturday, June 30, from 1 to 3 p.m. Maxwell lives off the grid ...