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Animals

Goat birthing and raising kids

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Stairs — The next level

By Skip Thomsen Website Exclusive • August, 2004 Any good carpenter can build a staircase. What we're talking about here is taking that staircase to the...

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

Build a stone wall

Building and stocking your pantry

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Farm and Garden

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

By Rebekah L. Cowell Photos by Amanda Egdorf-Sand Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 Vermicomposting takes composting to another level using Eisenia foetida (commonly known as red wiggler,...

The Potato Hole

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Americana and History

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...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Constitution of the united States of America

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Food and recipes

Chicken Curry

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

Chocolate crinkles

Breakfast Cereal

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Dollar Store to the Rescue

Power your bug-out bag

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Energy

Power your bug-out bag

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Millenium Vehicles

Guns and Hunting

Picking a holster

By Massad Ayoob Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 One good thing about being out in the boonies by yourself is that you can carry a gun...

Thoughts on ammunition

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

How big a gun do you need?

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Science

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...

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

How big is the solar system?

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Politics and Commentary

Homemade bread: a metaphor for life

Which is better, a small town or city?

Activists on both the left and the right spotlight a broken federal government

My View: Call Me Miracle Man!

Animals

Once a day milking

By Patrice Lewis Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 It sounds bucolic, doesn't it? The simple joys of milking your own cow. Fresh milk, fresh cream, homemade...

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...

Raising rabbits for profit

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Raising Rabbits

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Self-Reliance

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

How to organize an outdoor canning party

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

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 planning notebook. Although winter might feel like a time to...

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Fruit Trees

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...

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