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Finding the best dog for the country life

Goat birthing and raising kids

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

By Maggie Larsen Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 During a binge of spring cleaning, I ventured outside and began to renovate the exterior of my home,...

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Blueberry Cash Crop

By Ed Mashburn Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 My almost two-year-old grandson loves blueberries. Put a bowl of those round blue jewels in front of him,...

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

Garden Spaces for Small Places

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Toffee Bars, Maple Kisses, and Chocolate-Nut Cloud Candy

10 day survival pack for your vehicle for just $25

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

Build a community assistance recharging station

Sight and sound enhancement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 Enhancing vision and hearing can make you a safer, more effective shooter, and sometimes can save human lives. Captain...

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

Why oil and other fossil fuels are good

Activists on both the left and the right spotlight a broken federal government

Running your own business: a mother’s perspective

Animal disease traceability

By Patrice Lewis Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 In 2009, small farmers and ranchers breathed a sigh of relief. So did people worried about another curtailment...

The homestead cat

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson We have had at least one cat in our home ever since I was a young child. So it’s no wonder we...

Raising cattle on your own place

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

10 day survival pack for your vehicle for just $25

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki variety. Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 There's not one of us who...

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 of raising those birds, you could buy an awful lot...