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Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Goat birthing and raising kids

Raising rabbits for profit

Building

Building a $3,000 Barn

By Robert Van Putten Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 There comes a time when all homesteaders start thinking of livestock, and 14 years ago, we were...

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

The Forever Floor

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Small engine maintenance for women

Farm and Garden

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our...

How to Grow Potatoes

Caring for your chickens in winter

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Americana and History

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Remembering what grandma used

Food and recipes

Herbed cheese

Nana V’s holiday corn bread

Easy homemade dairy products

Fermented dill pickles

Self-reliance

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

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

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

Energy

Generators alone are not enough

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Women and guns

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...