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Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Where our farm animals come from

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Building

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

By Michael Hackleman Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Hydronic, or radiant floor heating is a method of heating a home, shop, or other building with the...

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Solar Building Design

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Build a log crib

Farm and Garden

Flowers Brighten the Garden

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Website Exclusive • March, 2006 Along with raising food plants, I like to tuck in a few flowers...

Sweet Potato Greens

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Americana and History

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

Grandpa’s justice

Fly it proudly and properly

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Canned bacon — Roll your own

Veal Goulash

Turning to turmeric

Scallop Crunch Appetizer

Self-reliance

10 ways to make money on your land

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

Garden injuries Part 2

Energy

Hydronic woodstoves

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Guns and Hunting

Big boomer guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 For you long time readers, I know what you're thinkin'"Hey, isn't this the guy who within the last...