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Animals

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

Beekeeping basics

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Bovine basics for beginners

Building

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

By Suzy Lowry Geno Website Exclusive • April, 2007 I have what seems like mountains of great "fertilizer" from my barn full of English Angora rabbits....

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Three Raised Bed Designs

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

Shake update

Farm and Garden

Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online...

The Best City Garden

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Americana and History

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

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

The vanishing outhouse

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

The time-travel ad

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Chicken chili

Demystifying real rye bread

No fuss, no muss, one-pan grouse supper

Concord Sherbet

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Knock knock vinegar

Fully Involved

Bartering for bad times

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

Energy

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Guns and Hunting

Picking a holster

By Massad Ayoob Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 One good thing about being out in the boonies by yourself is that you can carry a gun...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

How big a gun do you need?

The light at the end of the gun

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 —...