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Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Bovine basics for beginners

Building

A house a tornado helped build

By Robert L. Williams Issue #16 • July/August, 1992 On May 5, 1989, tornadoes ripped through parts of three western North Carolina counties, including ours, and...

Building your chicken coop

A river rock shower

A simple backwoods hay baler

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

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...

The Homestead Greenhouse

Grow some winter squash this year

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

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?

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Filipino Chicken Stew

The chicken and the egg

Cannellini Bean And Mushroom Casserole

Dill-onion bread

Self-reliance

Foraging for wild berries

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Hypothermia — A real winter danger

Essential oils

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

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

Solar Building Design

Water pumping windmills

Guns and Hunting

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

By Linda Gabris Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 Bear was a popular meat in our house when I was growing up in the rural woods. Black...

Sight and sound enhancement

The light at the end of the gun

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...