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Animals

Raising Rabbits

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Keeping homestead animals healthy

The homestead cat

Building

A salvaged oak floor for $5

By Robert L. Williams Issue #59 • September/October, 1999 Several months ago we decided we did not want to install a traditional bedroom floor of plywood...

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Build a stone wall

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Building your chicken coop

Farm and Garden

Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online...

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

The Best City Garden

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Catfish Biscuits

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

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

Food and recipes

Uncooked Peanut-butter Candy

Grilled Chicken with Pineapple-Peach Sauce

Cannellini Bean And Mushroom Casserole

Mac’s lamb curry bake

Self-reliance

Teaching the joy of reading

Homemade skin care products

Frostbite — Don’t flirt with this sneaky danger

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Energy

Build a community assistance recharging station

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Battery powered weekend retreat

Emergency solar power for $950

Guns and Hunting

Firearms — Tools of rural living

By Massad Ayoob Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 So, editor Dave Duffy and I got to talking about guns. We agreed that for some people they...

Choose your ammo… police style

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

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 coming ice age

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

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

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

Politics and Commentary

Here are some answers to often-asked questions of anti-gunners

Reaching for the stars during a recession

Getting the state out of marriage

Biological & chemical terrorism

Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

By Charles Sanders Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 For most homesteaders, the raising of livestock plays a crucial role in the home based economy. The types...

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

By John Silveira Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 What would happen if all the honeybees disappeared? According to some pundits we'd see a collapse in much...

Goat birthing and raising kids

Beekeeping basics

Raising cattle on your own place

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Self-Reliance

Just for Kids: Some farinaceous folly

Roger Clark: Cane syrup maker

10 ways to make money on your land

Medicinal uses of garlic

Farm and Garden

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

By Charles Sanders Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 There are mountains of old tires out there. Americans keep on rolling and tires keep on wearing out. Every year there is almost one scrap tire created for...

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Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown spinach, there is a world of difference between its taste...

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