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Switch your family to goat’s milk

Finding the best dog for the country life

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

By Roy Martin Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 A hotbed is a miniature greenhouse that is heated to protect new seedlings from cold. The hotbed differs...

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

Five building tricks for super strong framing

How to Grow Potatoes

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Potato plants need plenty of sunshine, a well drained soil, and no weed or grass interference. Ideal...

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

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 —...

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

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Tasty uses for garden and wild edibles

Stashing Junk Silver for Bad Times

Funerals don’t have to be expensive

Caring for wounds in the field

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Air power superiority

When a well-placed shot is required, when stealth and quiet are called for, an air rifle may be the best option. By Gary Lewis Issue #151 • January/February,...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Cold weather shooting considerations

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Science and truth. Are they related?

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Our energy crisis Part 3 — Alternative energy resources for the nation and for the self-reliant

Talking to your kids about death

Fake lawsuits, stacked juries, and LAWYERS!

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

By Darlene Polachic Issue #75 • May/June, 2002 If Henry Soderberg's predictions are right, Dorper sheep could revolutionize the meat sheep industry. A South African breed...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Finding the best dog for the country life

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

The return of home emergency shelters takes on a dual-purpose approach

By Sylvia Gist Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 Currants and gooseberries all belong to the genus Ribes (pronounced "rye-bees"). There are varieties of currants and gooseberries native to Europe and North America, along with some developed...

Sweet Potato Greens

By Tim Scullen Issue #168 • November/December, 2017 By now, you’ve no doubt figured out how good chard, spinach, and kale are for you. But did you know that sweet potato leaves are loaded with vitamins...