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Finding the best dog for the country life

Raising cattle on your own place

Goat birthing and raising kids

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

By Don Lewis In 1874, a United States patent (#157,124) was issued to Joseph F. Glidden, a long-serving sheriff in DeKalb County, Illinois. His invention...

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

Build your own log home in the woods

Building and Using Wattle Fences

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

By Jackie Clay Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 There are many things parents can give their children, other than plastic toys or a few bucks to...

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....

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

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

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

A guide to buying silver and gold

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Affordable firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 Knowing that frugality is one of the cornerstones of rural living, Editor Annie Tuttle suggested that I tackle...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

If you don’t like it here, why don’t you move to another country?

The rationale of the automatic rifle

Goat birthing and raising kids

By Jackie Clay Issue #112 • July/August, 2008 Dairy goats form one of the cornerstones of our homestead. Not only do they provide milk, cheese, ice...

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...

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

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

Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki variety. Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 There's not one of us who...

Growing Potatoes in Straw

By Habeeb Salloum Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 Virtually unknown to people in other parts of the world, the inhabitants in the Northern European countries have for hundreds of years grown potatoes above ground in straw...