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Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Bovine basics for beginners

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Building

Stairs — The next level

By Skip Thomsen Website Exclusive • August, 2004 Any good carpenter can build a staircase. What we're talking about here is taking that staircase to the...

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Gabion walls for form and function

Farm and Garden

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #173 • September/October, 2018 When compared to our ancestors, we are very lucky to have readily-available tools. Stores are full of anything...

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

The $1 Garden

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Americana and History

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

The vanishing outhouse

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

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Apple and Potato Soup

Czarist Chicken Salad

Boiled crawfish

Sweet potato pudding

Self-reliance

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Buying the right emergency radio

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

Homeschooling through high school

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...

Building the coyote rifle

Of guns and snakes

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...