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Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Good-bye old friend

Animal disease traceability

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Building

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

By David Lee Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 There is an old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." Curse or not, times are interesting....

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Making and using a solar cooker

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Farm and Garden

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Home-Grown Eggs

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Propagating Plants

Americana and History

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....

Remembering what grandma used

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Food and recipes

Gritted bread

Irish coffee

Jamaican Beef Patties

Blueberry tofu frappe

Self-reliance

Buying a used mobile home

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

10 tips for selling your homemade product

Energy

Solar power trailer Part 2

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Solar hot water systems

Guns and Hunting

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

By Brad Rohdenburg Website Exclusive • September, 2014 A 1958 "Light Twelve" Browning Auto-5, with a 28" Improved Cylinder barrel and 'Speedfeed' loading. It weighs less...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Sight and sound enhancement

Building the coyote rifle

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...