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Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Bovine basics for beginners

Bottle-raise a calf

Raising your own beef

Building

Build Your Own Hoop House

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 I’ve had my own garden for more than half a century, and I have learned a few things...

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Build an all-purpose ladder

Building and Using Wattle Fences

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Great Carrots

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #153 • May/June, 2015 Carrots are an old-time homesteader favorite. They can be frozen, canned, dehydrated, or simply stored in a cool...

Propagating Grapes

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

The Home Citrus Orchard

Currants and Gooseberries

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

The summer of ’35

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Food and recipes

Food security 101: part 2 — Convenience mixes make life easier

Nana V’s fire sauce

Broccoli and Ziti

Cannellini Bean And Mushroom Casserole

Self-reliance

Small Town America: Thermopolis, WY — Horses and hot springs

Keeping tools sharp

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Buying the right emergency radio

Energy

How to select the right backup generator

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Guns and Hunting

Catch your own bait

By Gary Gresh Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 Expensive lures and pricey tackle shop baits can sometimes make fishing an expensive proposition, raising the cost of...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

The light at the end of the gun

How big a gun do you need?

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...