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Animals

Where our farm animals come from

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Building

Build Your Own Hoop House

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 I’ve had my own garden for more than half a century, and I have learned a few things...

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Build a chicken tractor

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Build your own log home in the woods

Farm and Garden

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...

Victory Gardens

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Americana and History

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

The vanishing outhouse

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

Remembering what grandma used

Food and recipes

Grouse Hunting — The Ultimate Joy of Autumn

The convenience of a bread bucket

Spider rice casserole

Cookies in a jar

Self-reliance

Homestead helpers

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Energy

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Generators alone are not enough

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Guns and Hunting

Air power superiority

When a well-placed shot is required, when stealth and quiet are called for, an air rifle may be the best option. By Gary Lewis Issue #151 • January/February,...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Firearms and cold weather considerations

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Science

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...