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How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Build a log crib

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 Baby Zane is probably the only newborn in Hollywood sleeping in a log crib made by his grandmother...

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

By Nancy Wolcott Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 You are sitting there in your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the day...

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

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;...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Start a post-construction cleaning business

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

How to shoot a handgun accurately

By Massad Ayoob Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 "I want you to do an article on how to shoot a handgun accurately," Dave Duffy told me....

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Gee-Whiz: Time

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2016, Backwoods Home Time. We can’t see, feel, hear, smell, or taste it, but we can measure it and we break it...

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

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

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

Dark Winter — A simulated terrorist attack on three American cities using weaponized smallpox

Terrorism in America — The armed citizen’s view

My View: Jury duty: The charge was rape

The Coming American Dictatorship Part XII — The militarization of America’s police forces

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

By Darlene Polachic Issue #75 • May/June, 2002 If Henry Soderberg's predictions are right, Dorper sheep could revolutionize the meat sheep industry. A South African breed...

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

By Kathleen Sanderson Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 I have had dairy goats for most of the last 20 years or so and have raised almost...

Finding the best dog for the country life

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Cash in on your household junk

Nursing: A perfect backwoods career

The poor man’s ultra-light dual-fuel backpacking stove

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...

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 My grandson Tommy was probably 50 feet up off the ground when he hollered, "Catch this one, Grandpa!" With those words of warning he dropped another gunny...