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Animals

Once a day milking

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising cattle on your own place

Animal disease traceability

Building

Make adobe bricks

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Last winter I got a phone call from an old friend in Arizona. One of his sons...

Building Eric’s house

How to maintain a dirt road

Building and using wattle fences

How to Install a Steel Roof

Farm and Garden

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my...

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Growing Microgreens

Build a Composter

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Americana and History

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 —...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Fly it proudly and properly

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Keep the Ice On

Feeding large families without breaking the bank

Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter

Wonderful wilderness wines

Self-reliance

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

Grandma will love this personal ‘Helping Hands’ wall hanging

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Energy

Solar Building Design

Water pumping windmills

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Solar-powered refrigerators

Guns and Hunting

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Cold weather shooting considerations

Choose your ammo… police style

Science

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

By O. E. MacDougal January/February 2016, Backwoods Home Most people don’t know that we’re currently in an ice age and have been for the last 2.58...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

The many benefits of garlic

Science and truth. Are they related?

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

Politics and Commentary

Which is better, a small town or city?

Why you may want to get a stress test

Paying for social security with worthless $

Analyzing Obama on guns

Animals

Where our farm animals come from

Issue #105 • May/June, 2007 We don't know how far back the domestication of animals goes. But we...

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

By Kathleen Sanderson Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 I have had dairy goats for most of the last 20 years or so and have raised almost...

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

Beekeeping basics

Good-bye old friend

Raising cattle on your own place

Self-Reliance

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Building and stocking your pantry

Grandma will love this personal ‘Helping Hands’ wall hanging

Dehydrating eggs at home

Farm and Garden

Sweet Potato Greens

By Tim Scullen Issue #168 • November/December, 2017 By now, you’ve no doubt figured out how good chard, spinach, and kale are for you. But did you know that sweet potato leaves are loaded with vitamins...

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Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost of raising those birds, you could buy an awful lot...

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