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Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Get to know your spiders

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Small engine maintenance for women

Farm and Garden

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

By Corcceigh Green Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Isn't it funny how even the things we step on while walking on the lawn have value? I...

Growing Strawberries

Testing Soil

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Americana and History

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

The vanishing outhouse

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Nameless salad and dressing

Picnicking with class!

Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter

Picking and preserving the wild plum

Self-reliance

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

The art of living in small spaces

The poor man’s ultra-light dual-fuel backpacking stove

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Energy

Solar-powered water purifiers

Solar hot water systems

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

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Guns and Hunting

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

The light at the end of the gun

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...