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Raising cattle on your own place

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

By Jay Stoler Issue #117 • May/June, 2009 Fiber cement board siding is one of a number of siding materials that is replacing wood these days...

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

By Corcceigh Green Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Isn't it funny how even the things we step on while walking on the lawn have value? I...

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

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

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

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...

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

The black man’s worst enemy is not racism

Do rural homeowners need guns for self-defense?

Guns Save Lives Chapter 1: Point Blank

Armed citizens: the deterrent factor

Switch your family to goat’s milk

By Tanya Kelley Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 If you milk goats, there's no doubt you've heard it"Eww! Goat's milk! Gross!" To be perfectly honest, goat...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Cash in on your household junk

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

The adventures of a first-time homesteader

By Anita Evangelista Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 City gardens and country gardens are differentnot only in the amount of space each can fill, but in the types and quantities of...

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. After all, they give us a wide variety of products. Many...