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Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Raising cattle on your own place

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #43 • January/February, 1997 I know that there are a lot of really fine products available for turning logs into lumber,...

Gabion walls for form and function

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 Everyone likes a good success story, and if I were called upon to name the most successful...

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Caring for your chickens in winter

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Traditional trail foods — Transportable calories

How to make money from storage building auctions

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Woolen winter mittens in minutes

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Add solar power to your truck camper

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Big boomer guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 For you long time readers, I know what you're thinkin'"Hey, isn't this the guy who within the last...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 As little as 30 years ago the talk wasn't about global warming, it was about an imminent ice...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Fake lawsuits, stacked juries, and LAWYERS!

Tackling the real problems that face us

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...

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

By Charles Sanders Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 A 450-pound hog will provide a lot of delicious meat. Hogs are raised throughout our neighboring Amish community for...

Raising your own beef for your family

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Breastfeeding — Babies love it, and for good reason

Okra — Not Just for the South

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #58 • July/August, 1999 No one is quite sure about how okra seeds came to this country. Okra is of African origin and the seeds could have...

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the Fall

By Mark and Lynn Klammer Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 As spring approaches each year, we can hardly wait for the feel of warm earth between our fingers. And so, while most avid gardeners let Mother...