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Animals

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Building

Shake update

By David Lee Website Exclusive • January, 2005 Since my shake article was published in Backwoods Home Magazine, Issue #88, I have learned that some of...

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

Build a compost tumbler

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Farm and Garden

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

By Jackie Clay Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 Start your garden this year while the snow is still on the ground. I start all of my...

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Home-Grown Eggs

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

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

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Grandma’s persimmon pudding

Tetsukabuto squash pie

How to use those leftovers

Bread — The staff of life

Self-reliance

Buy your country place from the government

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Advice from second-time homesteaders

Energy

Build a community assistance recharging station

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Water pumping windmills

Solar-powered chicken coop

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

Affordable firearms

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

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...