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Animals

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Raising rabbits for profit

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

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Building

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

By Suzy Lowry Geno Website Exclusive • April, 2007 I have what seems like mountains of great "fertilizer" from my barn full of English Angora rabbits....

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Building a $3,000 Barn

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Farm and Garden

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

By Jackie Clay Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 Although I've been homesteading for more than forty years, there's always something new to learn. (I figure that...

Slug Zapper

Caring for your chickens in winter

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Gardening for Treasure

Americana and History

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 —...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Remembering what grandma used

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Canning chickens for the pantry

Baby bok choy with tofu

Jambalaya stew

You can safely and easily can your own meat

Self-reliance

Garden injuries Part 2

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

Foraging for wild berries

Simplifying simplicity

Energy

Keep the Ice On

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Solar Food Drying

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Catch your own bait

Choose your ammo… police style

How big a gun do you need?

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...