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Animals

Home Dairying

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Raising rabbits for profit

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Building

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #172 • July/August, 2018 Like most young folks today, our son David graduated high school, got a job, and went to college...

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Building your chicken coop

Build a pallet fence

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Farm and Garden

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...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Meat For the Homestead

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

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

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Dandelion recipes

Pistachio-Mocha Chicken

The chicken and the egg

Pickled chili peppers

Self-reliance

Storm survivors

Homestead security for women

Garden injuries Part 2

Space heater safety tips

Energy

Solar-powered water purifiers

Solar Food Drying

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Guns and Hunting

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Picking a holster

Use the right ammunition!

Cold weather shooting considerations

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...