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Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Raising cattle on your own place

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

By Bob Van Putten Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 The native peoples of North America were a very practical lot. Over the centuries they developed some...

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Gardening for Treasure

By Alice B. Yeager Tomatoes are a boon to mankind in health benefits. It doesn't matter whether they are the large...

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

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...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Grilled Steak with Olive-Blue Cheese Sauce

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

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

By Mike Blank Issue #89 • September/October, 2004 What follows is my personal quest to acquire an M1 Garand through the Civilian Marks-manship Program (CMP). We've...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...

A brief history of health and medicine

Can America be Saved from Stupid People?

My View: Three Cheers for Free Enterprise

How do you save freedom in America?

An American dollar worth two cents

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

By Linda Slate Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 While searching for a large quantity (five pounds or more) feeder for my backyard flock, I kept running...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

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...

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

By Nancy Wolcott Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 You are sitting there in your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the day when you can escape to the country and become a...