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Animals

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Bottle-raise a calf

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Solar Building Design

By Steven Heckeroth Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 Solar building design has been used since ancient times. In the more recent past, it has been more...

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Build a barrel stove

Build a pallet fence

Farm and Garden

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

By Kristina Seleshanko There are few things I enjoy more than snuggling up next to the woodstove with a cup of coffee and my garden...

Build a Composter

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

Grandpa’s justice

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

The barnyard scramble

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Bean-beef casserole

Tricia’s chicken chili

German green beans

Oregon Grape Jam

Self-reliance

The accidental homesteader

For safety’s sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly

City boy, country boy

Food security 101

Energy

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

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

Guns and Hunting

Sight and sound enhancement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 Enhancing vision and hearing can make you a safer, more effective shooter, and sometimes can save human lives. Captain...

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Building the coyote rifle

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Science

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...