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Animals

Where our farm animals come from

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Building

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

By Joe Mooney Issue #146 • March/April, 2014 Using a corrugated road culvert as a cistern is an economical way to add to your water storage....

Our Unconventional House

Renovating old walls

Building your chicken coop

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Farm and Garden

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

By Jereme Zimmerman  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 Bamboo: The very word evokes an image of...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

The greatest American who was never President

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

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Six Chile Chicken

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter

Pecan Crusted Trout

Self-reliance

Shopping to beat inflation

Vinegar — A splash is all you need for healthful eating, natural healing, and sparkling home

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

Homestead Helpers

Energy

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Add solar power to your truck camper

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Thoughts on ammunition

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Sight and sound enhancement

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...