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Animals

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Redworm farming

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

By Patrice Lewis One of the advantages of living a homesteading lifestyle is participants can kick aside the ever-changing concepts of what constitutes “classy” home...

Renovating old walls

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

How to maintain a dirt road

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Farm and Garden

Fruit Trees

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki...

How to Grow Great Carrots

Victory Gardens

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Currants and Gooseberries

Americana and History

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

By John Silveira Issue #31 • January/February, 1995 "What were you listening to when I got to your house? Sounded nice. I don't think I've ever...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Fly it proudly and properly

The barnyard scramble

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Baklava

Grandma’s persimmon pudding

Cheesy fish chowder

Woodstove cooking

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Take a nite hike!

Just for Kids: Knock knock vinegar

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

Stashing Junk Silver for Bad Times

Energy

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Solar-powered water purifiers

Guns and Hunting

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

How big a gun do you need?

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Firearms and cold weather considerations

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...