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Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Raising your own beef

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

How to maintain a dirt road

By Marjorie Burris Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 It is our job to maintain two and one half miles of dirt road if we want to...

Building your chicken coop

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Great Carrots

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #153 • May/June, 2015 Carrots are an old-time homesteader favorite. They can be frozen, canned, dehydrated, or simply stored in a cool...

The Homestead Greenhouse

Tracing a bean

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

Constitution of the united States of America

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

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

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

Food and recipes

Broiled fish fillet with piri piri sauce

Toffee Bars, Maple Kisses, and Chocolate-Nut Cloud Candy

Sweet Ginger Eggs

Fresh cucumber delight

Self-reliance

Paring down for off-grid living

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Buying a used mobile home

Digging a shallow well

Energy

Solar-powered chicken coop

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Waterpower for personal use

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Guns and Hunting

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

Choose your ammo… police style

Sight and sound enhancement

Reload your own brass

Canning game meat

Science

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

By O. E. MacDougal January/February 2016, Backwoods Home Most people don’t know that we’re currently in an ice age and have been for the last 2.58...

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

The coming ice age

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

Politics and Commentary

That old survivalist mumbo jumbo and 10 reasons why it makes sense

Perspectives on the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin shooting

10 traits for better living

The real gun criminals

Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

By Tanya Kelley Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 If you milk goats, there's no doubt you've heard it"Eww! Goat's milk! Gross!" To be perfectly honest, goat...

Goat birthing and raising kids

By Jackie Clay Issue #112 • July/August, 2008 Dairy goats form one of the cornerstones of our homestead. Not only do they provide milk, cheese, ice...

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Beekeeping basics

Get to know your spiders

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Self-Reliance

Stay clear of young wild animals

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

A canoe livery — An honest, clean business

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Farm and Garden

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

By Patrice Lewis Issue #141 • May/June, 2013 For much of human history, people have tried to prevent things from rotting. Literally every food preservation method we've come up with in the past few thousand years...

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Mid-season planting

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As the saying goes “Life happens…” Maybe events have kept you from getting your garden planted early in the spring. When we moved to New Mexico, it was in late June and...

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