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Animals

Raising rabbits for profit

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Beekeeping basics

Raising your own beef

Building

Building a $3,000 Barn

By Robert Van Putten Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 There comes a time when all homesteaders start thinking of livestock, and 14 years ago, we were...

Building your chicken coop

Solar Building Design

Build a stone wall

Rural Building

Farm and Garden

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Nearly all of us homesteaders grow tomatoes in our gardens. Tomatoes are hugely valuable as a homestead crop....

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

The Home Citrus Orchard

Flowers Brighten the Garden

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Americana and History

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

Constitution of the united States of America

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

The greatest American who was never President

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Food and recipes

Plantation Coffee Punch

The convenience of a bread bucket

Layered casserole

Baked Macaroni and Cheese to Kill For

Self-reliance

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

City boy, country boy

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Make your own firestarters

Energy

Solar power trailer Part 2

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Build Your Own Car Wash

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Guns and Hunting

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • July, 2008 Fifty years ago, Savage Arms introduced a new bolt-action sporting rifle. In the gun world, this was news....