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Animals

Building

Farm and Garden

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 It's been well over a decade now since I first heard my friend Pete voice his amazement...

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Saving Seeds

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

The Home Citrus Orchard

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

The time-travel ad

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Air power superiority

The Appleseed Project

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...

Science and truth. Are they related?

The coming ice age

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Gee-Whiz: Insects

Politics and Commentary

Animals

The homestead cat

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson We have had at least one cat in our home ever since I was a young child. So it’s no wonder we...

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...

Bottle-raise a calf

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Animal disease traceability

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Growing Productive Strawberries

By Edna Manning Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 Here on the Canadian prairies, I have found strawberries to be perhaps one of the most delicious, least-demanding and productive fruits I can grow in our Zone 2...
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Saving Seeds

By Jackie Clay Issue #129 • May/June, 2011 I go through dozens of garden seed catalogs in preparation for each year's new (and better!) garden. I have a lot of "old reliable" varieties that I grow...
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