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Animals

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

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Raising rabbits for profit

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Building

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #168 • November/December, 2017 I should have been a mole — it feels so safe and cool and quiet to be underground....

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Building and using wattle fences

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Farm and Garden

Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet....

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Fruit Trees

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

The vanishing outhouse

Remembering what grandma used

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Vegetable Salad with Yogurt Dressing

Homemade baking extracts

Preserving plums

Spider rice casserole

Self-reliance

A determined Rose Bley escaped the city

Bath herbs

Start a fire in any weather

Buy your country place from the government

Energy

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Hydronic woodstoves

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Cold weather shooting considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 Winter will soon be upon us. Cold weather makes a lot of things more difficult. Running. Walking. Navigating...

Affordable firearms

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

How big a gun do you need?

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Science

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...