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Animals

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Is that a good pig?

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Building

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as...

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

Farm and Garden

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

By Gail Butler Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 When friends stop by for a visit I like to offer them a hospitable and healthful libation of...

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

How to Grow Garlic

Grow some winter squash this year

Sweet Potato Greens

Americana and History

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Catfish Biscuits

Fly it proudly and properly

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Goat milk recipes

Kentucky Country Ribs

Pickled nopalitos

Duane’s shrimp dip

Self-reliance

Woolen winter mittens in minutes

Clean up your act!

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

In the classroom and at home, this system will help you grow self-reliant kids

Energy

Solar suitcase

Solar-powered chicken coop

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

How to select the right backup generator

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Tailoring guns to females

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...