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Keeping homestead animals healthy

Build your own portable forge

By Corcceigh Green Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Looking for a handy summer project while building skills, supplies, and knowledge to put away for a rainy...

Build a chicken house in a day

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Gardening the Year ‘Round

By Alice B. Yeager Website Exclusive • September, 2006 Normally, we gardeners tend to make plans to begin planting our gardens during early spring. We select...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

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

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Pistachios — Historic and healthy nuts

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

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....

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

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...

The Informed Juror — How an informed jury helps safeguard liberty

Goodbye TV, hello constructive time

Who’s supposed to protect our rights?

Lessons for My Children Chapter 1

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

By Karen McGeorge Sanders Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 It seems that farmers always need an extra pair of hands, but finding the money to pay...

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

By Darlene Polachic Issue #75 • May/June, 2002 If Henry Soderberg's predictions are right, Dorper sheep could revolutionize the meat sheep industry. A South African breed...

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Lessons learned from an ice storm

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

By Nancy Wolcott Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 You are sitting there in your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the day when you can escape to the country and become a...

The Home Citrus Orchard

By Anita Evangelista Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 It may seem like an impossible dream if you live outside of southern Florida, California, or Texas, but you can grow a home "backyard" orchard of oranges, lemons,...