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Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Build Your Own Car Wash

By Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 Completed car wash in operation If someone told me a year ago that I would have a...

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Building and stocking your pantry

Meat For the Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Meat is often the most expensive portion of our grocery bill, and it is getting more and more...

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Learning to love the high desert

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

Buying the right emergency radio

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Choose your ammo… police style

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Armed civilians can help fight terrorism

Three honest words: “I don’t know”

Planning the lives of generations to come

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

By Jayn Steidl Thibodeau Issue #36 • November/December, 1995 Have you ever had this happen to you? You've opened the refrigerator door for a cold, refreshing...

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

...while leaving the carcass and feathers intact! By Dr. Roger W. Grim, D.C. Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Figure 1. With a trash bag properly fitted around...

Where our farm animals come from

Sew a baby quilt in two days… for a lifetime of memories

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

Small Town America: Thermopolis, WY — Horses and hot springs

By Ed Mashburn Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 My almost two-year-old grandson loves blueberries. Put a bowl of those round blue jewels in front of him, and he's a happy little man. He's not alone. Many...

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 Everyone likes a good success story, and if I were called upon to name the most successful tree in our small orchard I'd have to say it's...