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Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

By Robert Van Putten Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 For as long as I can remember, I’ve always wanted a rustic log cabin deep in the...

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Building and Using Wattle Fences

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Fruit Trees

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Biological and chemical weapons through history

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Big boomer guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 For you long time readers, I know what you're thinkin'"Hey, isn't this the guy who within the last...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Firearms and cold weather considerations

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...

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Getting the state out of marriage

Working for a dad who works at home

Why we have no “constitutional” rights

Switch your family to goat’s milk

By Tanya Kelley Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 If you milk goats, there's no doubt you've heard it"Eww! Goat's milk! Gross!" To be perfectly honest, goat...

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

By Gene Sheley Issue #50 • March/April, 1998 Near the top of North America's wildlife food chain is the mountain lion, a close second to bears...

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Just for Kids: Visit the great prairies

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my garlic business and till up three 600-square-foot beds for planting...

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

By Jackie Clay Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 There are many things parents can give their children, other than plastic toys or a few bucks to play video games at the mall. And one of the...