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Animals

Animal disease traceability

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Redworm farming

Building

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as...

Building and Using Wattle Fences

How safe is your electric fence?

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Farm and Garden

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

By Glenn Willis, Jr. Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Several years ago my sister and her husband had an 8-horse gas-powered rototiller that went belly up....

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

The Best City Garden

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Meat For the Homestead

Americana and History

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Artichoke Omelet Appetizer

Concord Sherbet

Tastes Just Like Chicken

Self-reliance

Drive your own freshwater well

Nursing: A perfect backwoods career

Teaching the joy of reading

New yarn from old sweaters

Energy

Is steam power in your future?

Portable solar power

Prepper power! Part 1

Power your bug-out bag

Guns and Hunting

Air power superiority

When a well-placed shot is required, when stealth and quiet are called for, an air rifle may be the best option. By Gary Lewis Issue #151 • January/February,...

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Of guns and snakes

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...