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Animals

Raising Rabbits

Raising your own beef

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Building

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

By Robert Van Putten Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 My wife and I built our homestead by hand. I’m not a professional builder, so once in...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

How safe is your electric fence?

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Woodbarrow

Farm and Garden

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

By Donna Insco  Issue #158 March/April, 2016 According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website, "CDC estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans...

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Meat For the Homestead

Home-Grown Eggs

Americana and History

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 —...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Fried chicken for breakfast

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Lenie in the kitchen: Lemon scones, pound cake, and pie

Zucchini with green chilies

Beef and Cabbage Soup

Louisiana gumbo

Self-reliance

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Jackie’s tips for hardcore homesteading

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

Energy

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Solar-powered water purifiers

Guns and Hunting

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

By Massad Ayoob Issue #163 • January/February, 2017 Click Here to read Part 1 Click Here to read Part 2 As noted in the two previous parts of...

Air power superiority

How big a gun do you need?

Catch your own bait

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 As little as 30 years ago the talk wasn't about global warming, it was about an imminent ice...

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

Politics and Commentary

Terrorist attack! Was this predictable?

Avoiding legal traps

Of kids and guns

Something unsaid about Timothy McVeigh’s execution

Animals

Good-bye old friend

By Lucy Shober Issue #27 • May/June, 1994 Big Poney died today. He was 34 years old and had been going down pretty rapidly over this...

Keeping homestead animals healthy

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 As a veterinary field technician for more than 20 years, I saw firsthand the frustration and heartbreak when...

Slaughtering and Butchering

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Animal disease traceability

Self-Reliance

Garden injuries Part 2

10 tips for selling your homemade product

Swedish log candle

Start a fire in any weather

Farm and Garden

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 After originating in the semi-arid regions of the middle east, espaliering (is-'pal-yer-ing) became a commonly employed fruit tree growing method of the Greco-Roman world. Later, during the...

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Victory Gardens

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 There have been very few times in our nation's history when "We, the people" have banded together so fiercely as we did during World War II. We...

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