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Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

Beekeeping basics

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Where our farm animals come from

Building

Build a chicken tractor

By Connie Rabun Issue #127 • January/February, 2011 In the beginning we had chickens...and no coop! Any homesteader knows that the number one rule is to...

Build a ski sled

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Build a barrel stove

Farm and Garden

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants...

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

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....

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

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Make grape juice the easy way

Beans for Sarah

Vidalia Onion Pie

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Self-reliance

Homestead Helpers

Preparing for civil unrest

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Tips for finding your affordable home

Energy

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Solar power trailer Part 1

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

Just because

Affordable firearms

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...