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Animals

Building

Build your own log home in the woods

By Jackie Clay (Photos by Bill Spaulding and Jackie Clay) Issue #72 • November/December, 2001 This is the third part of a three-part series. The first two parts...

Rural Building

Rural Building

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Farm and Garden

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

By Jackie Clay Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 Start your garden this year while the snow is still on the ground. I start all of my...

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Mid-season planting

Americana and History

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Affordable firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 Knowing that frugality is one of the cornerstones of rural living, Editor Annie Tuttle suggested that I tackle...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Canning game meat

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Catch your own bait

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

The many benefits of garlic

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Good-bye old friend

By Lucy Shober Issue #27 • May/June, 1994 Big Poney died today. He was 34 years old and had been going down pretty rapidly over this...

Raising your own beef for your family

By Charles Sanders Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 For most homesteaders, the raising of livestock plays a crucial role in the home based economy. The types...

Raising rabbits for profit

Bottle-raise a calf

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

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

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Sweet Potato Greens

By Tim Scullen Issue #168 • November/December, 2017 By now, you’ve no doubt figured out how good chard, spinach, and kale are for you. But did you know that sweet potato leaves are loaded with vitamins...
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Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the Fall

By Mark and Lynn Klammer Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 As spring approaches each year, we can hardly wait for the feel of warm earth between our fingers. And so, while most avid gardeners let Mother...
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