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Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Redworm farming

Slaughtering and Butchering

Building

Building a $3,000 Barn

By Robert Van Putten Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 There comes a time when all homesteaders start thinking of livestock, and 14 years ago, we were...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Renovating old walls

Farm and Garden

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply...

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

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

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

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

Food and recipes

Dill-onion bread

Fried tuna patties

Nana V’s holiday corn bread

Ribeye Steak with Chianti Sauce

Self-reliance

Bugging out in place

The coffee mug knife sharpener

Defeating debt

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

Energy

Solar Building Design

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Hydronic woodstoves

Making and using a solar cooker

Guns and Hunting

Picking a holster

By Massad Ayoob Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 One good thing about being out in the boonies by yourself is that you can carry a gun...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Women and guns

Science

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 —...