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Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Build your own repeating mouse trap

By Allen Easterly Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Safety note: Because of drowning danger, 5-gallon buckets with any amount of water in them should never be...

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Meat For the Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Meat is often the most expensive portion of our grocery bill, and it is getting more and more...

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

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;...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

10 day survival pack for your vehicle for just $25

Build your own battery charging station

Generators alone are not enough

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Cold weather shooting considerations

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...

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

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Why you may want to get a stress test

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

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

By Allen Easterly Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 Raising quail is inexpensive, easy, provides very healthy low-fat white meat, and supplies the fertilizer you need for...

Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet....

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

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Homeschooling through high school

The adventures of a first-time homesteader

By Allen Easterly Issue #165 • May/June, 2017 Maybe you’ve thought about keeping a few chickens for their eggs but didn’t want to be awakened at 4:00 AM by a rooster singing “cock-a-doodle-doo.” At this time...

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s basically a method of recycling junk wood to make a...