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Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Goat birthing and raising kids

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Build a poultry killing cone

By Allen Easterly Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 You've worked hard and spent many hours raising your pretty flock of meat chickens from eggs or chicks...

Build a wood crib with free materials

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #74 • March/April, 2002 Are you tired of raising a big row crop gardenone that keeps you busy from dawn until...

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Grow some winter squash this year

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

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

Choose your ammo… police style

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...

A brief history of health and medicine

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

Consider the trades when it comes to your future ability to make money

Why bureaucracy will likely destroy America

How environmental ideology hurts the solar energy industry

The world’s least-free country

Animal disease traceability

By Patrice Lewis Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 In 2009, small farmers and ranchers breathed a sigh of relief. So did people worried about another curtailment...

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

By Annie Duffy Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 "If you're going to make something that you want to last, why not start with good quality material,"...

Goat birthing and raising kids

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Raising cattle on your own place

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part III

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

By Christopher and Dolores Lynn Nyerges Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 For some people, home gardening is an expensive pursuit, which seems a bit backward to us. At one time, people gardened because home-grown produce was...

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

By Gail Butler Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 When friends stop by for a visit I like to offer them a hospitable and healthful libation of elderberry cordial. When served in a small aperitif glass or...