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How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Raising cattle on your own place

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

By Patrice Lewis One of the advantages of living a homesteading lifestyle is participants can kick aside the ever-changing concepts of what constitutes “classy” home...

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Adventures with a portable sawmill

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

By Christopher and Dolores Lynn Nyerges Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 For some people, home gardening is an expensive pursuit, which seems a bit backward to...

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

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

Constitution of the united States of America

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

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Vegetarian and semi-vegetarian: Healthy meals that satisfy the omnivore

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Breastfeeding — Babies love it, and for good reason

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 I take the Springfield Armory rifle out of the box, and savor it. I seldom do that with...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Gee-Whiz: Time

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2016, Backwoods Home Time. We can’t see, feel, hear, smell, or taste it, but we can measure it and we break it...

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

Stumbling over your own stupidity

Defunding government is a sensible voter solution to reining in local government

Can the U.N. Ban America’s Guns?

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

By Allen Easterly Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 Raising quail is inexpensive, easy, provides very healthy low-fat white meat, and supplies the fertilizer you need for...

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

By Darlene Polachic Issue #75 • May/June, 2002 If Henry Soderberg's predictions are right, Dorper sheep could revolutionize the meat sheep industry. A South African breed...

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

Flea market stories and strategies

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of...

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're so elusive, like the leprechaun, it seems they don't exist....

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s basically a method of recycling junk wood to make a...