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Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Get to know your spiders

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My family has always been big on birthdays and holidaysincluding Thanksgiving, Christmas, Memorial Day, Fourth of July,...

Claw Hammers

Build a wood crib with free materials

Shake update

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

Farm and Garden

The $1 Garden

By Jonathan Nunan Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 The dollar garden is simple in concept: buy as many seeds as you can for one dollar and...

Companion Planting

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

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

Food and recipes

The healthy and tantalizing pomegranate

Be a Viking: Brew wild-crafted mead

Fresh cucumber delight

You can safely and easily can your own meat

Self-reliance

Making maple syrup

The joys of making soap

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Sew a baby quilt in two days… for a lifetime of memories

Energy

Is steam power in your future?

Job site solar power

Hydronic woodstoves

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Guns and Hunting

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Thoughts on ammunition

Choose your ammo… police style

Firearms — Tools of rural living

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...