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Animals

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Bovine basics for beginners

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

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

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

By Michael Hackleman Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Hydronic, or radiant floor heating is a method of heating a home, shop, or other building with the...

Build an all-purpose ladder

Easy awnings

Build a chicken tractor

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Farm and Garden

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

By Setanta O'Ceillaigh  Issue #160 • July/August, 2016 The cycle never ends: As soon as one...

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

How to Grow Potatoes

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....

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

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

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

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Caribbean Barbecued Pork Steaks

Vidalia Onion Pie

Sweet potato pudding

Brining pickles by the quart or gallon

Self-reliance

Harvest your own firewood

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

How we found our remote backwoods home

Energy

Build a community assistance recharging station

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Solar suitcase

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...

Choose your ammo… police style

Moderate power firearms

The Appleseed Project

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...