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Animals

Animal disease traceability

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Goat birthing and raising kids

Bovine basics for beginners

Building

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

By Roy Martin Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 A hotbed is a miniature greenhouse that is heated to protect new seedlings from cold. The hotbed differs...

A cabin for one

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Build a poultry killing cone

Farm and Garden

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my...

The Best City Garden

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Americana and History

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

The time-travel ad

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

The summer of ’35

Remembering what grandma used

Food and recipes

Four Breads for the Bread Machine

How to tell a bad egg

Baby bok choy with tofu

Middle Eastern breads

Self-reliance

Food security 101: part 2

Survival firebuilding skills

Making a great rug from the rag bag

The community treasure chest

Energy

Prepper power! Part 2

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Power your bug-out bag

An $89 backup generator

Guns and Hunting

The time for modern; the time for traditional

By Massad Ayoob Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Traditional "old skool" guns, or the most modern and efficient ballistic hardware that money can buy? I asked...