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Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Building

A salvaged oak floor for $5

By Robert L. Williams Issue #59 • September/October, 1999 Several months ago we decided we did not want to install a traditional bedroom floor of plywood...

Three Raised Bed Designs

Building and Using Wattle Fences

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Farm and Garden

Growing the Eternal Tomato

By Leonard Trebor Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 It's an old story to longtime gardeners (and a new story to novices): each spring you buy some...

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Meat For the Homestead

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

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

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Food and recipes

Persimmon cookies

No fuss, no muss, one-pan grouse supper

Easy, no-knead bread by Melissa Souza

Blanching vegetables

Self-reliance

Lessons learned from an ice storm

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

The Trigger Line

Disaster preparation!

Energy

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Dim bulbs in California

Energy class: Part 1

Making and using a solar cooker

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

Big boomer guns

Canning game meat

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...