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Animals

Animal disease traceability

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

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...

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Three Raised Bed Designs

Farm and Garden

Saving Seeds

By Jackie Clay Issue #129 • May/June, 2011 I go through dozens of garden seed catalogs in preparation for each year's new (and better!) garden. I...

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

The $1 Garden

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Americana and History

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Baked Bean Soup

The perfect holiday meal

Vegetarian and semi-vegetarian: Healthy meals that satisfy the omnivore

Self-reliance

No dentist? Oh, no!

13 steps to a life of freedom

Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass

Keeping tools sharp

Energy

Solar power trailer Part 1

Solar power for farm and ranch

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Grid-down battery devices

Guns and Hunting

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...

Canning game meat

The light at the end of the gun

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...