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Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Rural Building

By Martin Harris Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 Q. We have just purchased 15 acres, and our question is how to install our septic system, how...

Make adobe bricks

Rural Building

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

Build a barrel stove

Farm and Garden

The Home Citrus Orchard

By Anita Evangelista Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 It may seem like an impossible dream if you live outside of southern Florida, California, or Texas, but...

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Growing and Using Peppers

The Homestead Greenhouse

Home-Grown Eggs

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Fried chicken for breakfast

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

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

Food and recipes

Kentucky Country Ribs

American food — It’s as varied as the melting pot

Chocolate — Food for the Gods

Pickled chili peppers

Self-reliance

The return of home emergency shelters takes on a dual-purpose approach

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Bugging out in place

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Energy

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Guns and Hunting

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

By Massad Ayoob Issue #163 • January/February, 2017 Click Here to read Part 1 Click Here to read Part 2 As noted in the two previous parts of...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

How big a gun do you need?

Air power superiority

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...