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Animals

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

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Where our farm animals come from

Raising Rabbits

Building

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

By Charles Sanders Issue #94 • July/August, 2005 Perhaps one of the most important innovations in modern plumbing has been the development of polyvinyl chloride (PVC),...

Build a poultry killing cone

A simple backwoods hay baler

This coop is for the birds

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

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....

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Bacon-Avocado Potato Salad

Ribeye Steak with Chianti Sauce

Easy, no-knead bread by Melissa Souza

Dishpan cookies

Self-reliance

Frostbite — Don’t flirt with this sneaky danger

Start a post-construction cleaning business

Circle of friends

The poor man’s ultra-light dual-fuel backpacking stove

Energy

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Guns and Hunting

Women and guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 In a time when what used to be called "the women's liberation movement" has achieved many of its...

How big a gun do you need?

Catch your own bait

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Science

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...