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Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Where our farm animals come from

Building

Build a barrel stove

By Nick Weston Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 This stove kept me warm and provided an excellent cooking surface for more than six months while I...

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Renovating old walls

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Farm and Garden

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

By Darlene Polachic Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 Why spend money buying plant starter packs when you can make all you need from old newspapers? The...

Saving Seeds

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

The Best City Garden

Companion Planting

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

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

Grandpa’s justice

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Food and recipes

Indian Fry Bread

Cherries and Chocolate Cake

Vegetable Salad with Yogurt Dressing

Grouse Hunting — The Ultimate Joy of Autumn

Self-reliance

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

Preparing for civil unrest

Start a fire in any weather

10 country do’s and don’ts

Energy

Dim bulbs in California

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Grid-down battery devices

Guns and Hunting

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 I take the Springfield Armory rifle out of the box, and savor it. I seldom do that with...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Building the coyote rifle

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: Ice Ages, Past and Future

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

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

Politics and Commentary

Biological & chemical terrorism

Magnesium and the International Criminal Court

Next time you see me, don’t be afraid to say, ‘Hello.’

Is the Mainstream Media Finally Recognizing How the War on Drugs is Destroying Our Rights?

Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

By Charles Sanders Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 For most homesteaders, the raising of livestock plays a crucial role in the home based economy. The types...

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

By Jackie Clay Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 When I was a child, I used to read and re-read the chick section in our Sears and...

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Self-Reliance

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

Harvest your own firewood

Farm and Garden

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

By Glenn Willis, Jr. Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Several years ago my sister and her husband had an 8-horse gas-powered rototiller that went belly up. They fussed with it a bit, but couldn't get it...

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Saving Seeds

By Jackie Clay Issue #129 • May/June, 2011 I go through dozens of garden seed catalogs in preparation for each year's new (and better!) garden. I have a lot of "old reliable" varieties that I grow...

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