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Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

A contrary guide to feeding animals

The homestead cat

Build a poultry killing cone

Building

Build a compost tumbler

By Joe Mooney Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 A few years back, I caught myself becoming a bit frustrated with my compost pile. It seemed that...

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Rural Building

Build a graceful footbridge

Farm and Garden

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Nearly all of us homesteaders grow tomatoes in our gardens. Tomatoes are hugely valuable as a homestead crop....

Companion Planting

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Pruning Blueberries

The Home Citrus Orchard

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

The vanishing outhouse

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Potato Latkes

Cast iron loaf pans from breakfast to dessert

Twice Cooked Pork

Picking and preserving the wild plum

Self-reliance

Avoiding heat illness

Turn your passion into a business

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

A canoe livery — An honest, clean business

Energy

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Solar power for farm and ranch

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Guns and Hunting

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...

Picking a holster

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Choose your ammo… police style

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...