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Animals

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Once a day milking

Finding the best dog for the country life

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Building

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

By Charles Sanders Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 Drying of food as a means of preservation has been around for a long time. Populations in suitably...

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

Farm and Garden

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply...

Currants and Gooseberries

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Grow some winter squash this year

How to Grow Potatoes

Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Grandpa’s justice

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Braised venison pepper steak

Honey Crunch Baked Apples

Sorrento Salad

In search of the perfect cup of coffee

Self-reliance

A worthwhile journey

Avoiding heat illness

Sew a baby quilt in two days… for a lifetime of memories

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Energy

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

An $89 backup generator

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Prepper power! Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Firearms — Tools of rural living

By Massad Ayoob Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 So, editor Dave Duffy and I got to talking about guns. We agreed that for some people they...

The Appleseed Project

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...