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Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising rabbits for profit

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Building

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

By Steve Maxwell How many times have you built an outdoor project out of wood, only to be disappointed by the deterioration that hit after...

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Build a wood crib with free materials

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

Build a chicken house in a day

Farm and Garden

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 While growing up in Detroit, we had no nut trees in our yard (though we did have seedlings...

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Americana and History

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Remembering what grandma used

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

These salads are hearty dishes

Some unusual jellies for your sweet tooth

Picking and preserving the wild plum

Make sourdough with wild yeast

Self-reliance

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

Bath herbs

Survival infection control

Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks

Energy

Battery powered weekend retreat

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Emergency solar power for $950

Power Up

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...

Just because

Building the coyote rifle

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...