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Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Animal disease traceability

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

Build your own portable forge

By Corcceigh Green Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Looking for a handy summer project while building skills, supplies, and knowledge to put away for a rainy...

Solar Building Design

Build a Composter

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

A river rock shower

Farm and Garden

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

By Howard Tuckey Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 In less than an hour last fall, I tilled up a 4x8 foot garden bed and planted 250...

How to Grow Great Carrots

Grow some winter squash this year

Fruit Trees

The Potato Hole

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Fly it proudly and properly

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Dark moons

Dollar Store to the Rescue

Chicken with galanga in coconut milk soup

Mairead’s Fabulous Flan

Self-reliance

Saving money on the homestead

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Energy

Solar power trailer Part 2

Build your own battery charging station

Solar-powered water purifiers

Hydronic woodstoves

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

Use the right ammunition!

Sight and sound enhancement

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...