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Animals

Good-bye old friend

Raising your own beef

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

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...

New invention— The Fencerunner

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Farm and Garden

Companion Planting

By Beverly Mettot Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 Companion planting is nothing new, and yet in recent years it has made an extraordinary comeback, not only...

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

Fruit Trees

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Growing Microgreens

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

Catfish Biscuits

The vanishing outhouse

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Make sourdough with wild yeast

Raspberry chocolate torte

Blanching vegetables

Sweet potato pudding

Self-reliance

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

Woolen winter mittens in minutes

For safety’s sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly

Based on years of personal experience, here are 10 good tips for homeschooling your children

Energy

Solar-powered chicken coop

Solar suitcase

Hydronic woodstoves

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Guns and Hunting

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

By Brad Rohdenburg Website Exclusive • September, 2014 A 1958 "Light Twelve" Browning Auto-5, with a 28" Improved Cylinder barrel and 'Speedfeed' loading. It weighs less...

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...