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Animals

Beekeeping basics

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Good-bye old friend

Where our farm animals come from

Building

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #138 • November/December, 2012 Keeping fresh water in front of our livestock in the winter has always been somewhat of a problem....

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Installing a steel roof

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

Farm and Garden

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 Everyone likes a good success story, and if I were called upon to name the most successful...

Blueberry Cash Crop

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

The Homestead Greenhouse

Americana and History

Fried chicken for breakfast

By Danny Fulks Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, is one of those rare writers capable of painting a vivid picture of life back...

Remembering what grandma used

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Bread — The staff of life

Making hard cider

Persimmon cookies

Coconut Rice Pudding

Self-reliance

Start a fire in any weather

Teach your kids math with the banking game

7 Mistakes of food storage

Earning money from home

Energy

Solar-powered water purifiers

Power Up

Is steam power in your future?

Generators alone are not enough

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Building the coyote rifle

Of guns and snakes

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Science

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...