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Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

By Jereme Zimmerman Issue #175 • January/February/March, 2019 My journey to becoming a beekeeper has been a long one, and I’m still not quite there yet....

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 While growing up in Detroit, we had no nut trees in our yard (though we did have seedlings...

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Vinegar — A splash is all you need for healthful eating, natural healing, and sparkling home

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Women and guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 In a time when what used to be called "the women's liberation movement" has achieved many of its...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

The time for modern; the time for traditional

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...

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

The Coming American Dictatorship revisited

Self-reliance is a mindset — A woman’s opinion

Why oil and other fossil fuels are good

Tackling the real problems that face us

Raising Rabbits

By Linda Gabris Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 If you take pride and pleasure in growing your own organic garden foods and raising your own chemical-free...

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...

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

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Where our farm animals come from

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Just for Kids: Life in the forest

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

By John Silveira Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My engineer father was not fond of wasting time or energy. He was always searching for a better, more efficient way to perform chores, especially chores that reoccurred...

Garden Spaces for Small Places

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden. Minnie Aumonier Yes, and if your budget is lean and you want something green, there's...