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Animals

Raising your own beef

Finding the best dog for the country life

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

Build your own portable forge

By Corcceigh Green Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Looking for a handy summer project while building skills, supplies, and knowledge to put away for a rainy...

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Farm and Garden

Growing Potatoes in Straw

By Habeeb Salloum Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 Virtually unknown to people in other parts of the world, the inhabitants in the Northern European countries have...

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Naughty Peppers

Americana and History

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

The summer of ’35

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Ham and sausage jambalaya

Pistachio-Mocha Chicken

Seven secrets of Dutch oven cooking

Mint julep non-alcoholic

Self-reliance

Space heater safety tips

Making maple syrup

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

Energy

Solar Food Drying

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Water pumping windmills

Prepper power! Part 1

Guns and Hunting

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 I take the Springfield Armory rifle out of the box, and savor it. I seldom do that with...

Just because

Moderate power firearms

Air power superiority

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Science

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

By O. E. MacDougal January/February 2016, Backwoods Home Most people don’t know that we’re currently in an ice age and have been for the last 2.58...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

How big is the solar system?

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Politics and Commentary

Fixing a broken jury system

Which is better, a small town or city?

The Coming American Dictatorship Part XII — The militarization of America’s police forces

Our ‘unenumerated’ rights

Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

By Charles Sanders Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 For most homesteaders, the raising of livestock plays a crucial role in the home based economy. The types...

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

By Annie Duffy Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 "If you're going to make something that you want to last, why not start with good quality material,"...

The homestead cat

Goat birthing and raising kids

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Raising Rabbits

Self-Reliance

Jackie’s tips for hardcore homesteading

The coffee mug knife sharpener

Building and stocking your pantry

The Trigger Line

Farm and Garden

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Nearly all of us homesteaders grow tomatoes in our gardens. Tomatoes are hugely valuable as a homestead crop. After all, they give us a wide variety of products. Many...

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Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet. These beneficial bacteria promote good digestive health, strengthen the immune...

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