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Animals

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

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

Bovine basics for beginners

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Stairs — The next level

By Skip Thomsen Website Exclusive • August, 2004 Any good carpenter can build a staircase. What we're talking about here is taking that staircase to the...

Rural Building

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Farm and Garden

Grow Your Own Dishrags

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Some of us are thrifty beyond measure, even growing our own dishrags. None...

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Build a Composter

The $1 Garden

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

The greatest American who was never President

The barnyard scramble

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

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

Food and recipes

Grilled Chicken with Pineapple-Peach Sauce

Ribeye Steak with Chianti Sauce

Jo’s Kentucky-fried cole slaw

Butterpeas

Self-reliance

The cholesterol in your stovepipe can be fatal

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

Based on years of personal experience, here are 10 good tips for homeschooling your children

Woolen winter mittens in minutes

Energy

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Emergency solar power for $950

Is steam power in your future?

Solar-powered refrigerators

Guns and Hunting

How big a gun do you need?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 We Americans like to do things in a big way. Big houses. Big cars. Big boats. And, yes,...

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

The light at the end of the gun

Of guns and snakes

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...