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Animals

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

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

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #152 • March/April, 2015 Here's the finished vanity with our unfinished dresser that will store our extra towels and linens. We've had our log...

Build a Groundhog Snare

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Stairs — The next level

Farm and Garden

Naughty Peppers

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 If you are prudish, narrow-minded or puritanical, read no further as this article...

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Build Your Own Hoop House

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....

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

The barnyard scramble

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Lazy housewife pickles

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Lamb and black bean tamale pie

Nanny B’s benne bake

Self-reliance

Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell

Caring for wounds in the field

Dealing with heat stress

Getting logs

Energy

Energy class: Part 1

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Energy class: Part 3

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Guns and Hunting

Affordable firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 Knowing that frugality is one of the cornerstones of rural living, Editor Annie Tuttle suggested that I tackle...

Building the coyote rifle

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

How big a gun do you need?

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...