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Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Switch your family to goat’s milk

The homestead cat

Building

Building and Using Wattle Fences

By Kathryn Wingrove Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Wattle fences are made by weaving material in and out of posts in the ground. They were often...

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Build a barrel stove

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Farm and Garden

Home-Grown Eggs

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...

Gardening for Treasure

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Blueberry Cash Crop

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Grandpa’s justice

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Elk Roast With Cranberries

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

Hummus

Making apple pectin

Self-reliance

10 country do’s and don’ts

Avoiding heat illness

The accidental homesteader

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

Energy

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Grid-down battery devices

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Guns and Hunting

Cold weather shooting considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 Winter will soon be upon us. Cold weather makes a lot of things more difficult. Running. Walking. Navigating...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Big boomer guns

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

The Appleseed Project

Science

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...