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Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Bovine basics for beginners

Raising your own beef for your family

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

Build your own repeating mouse trap

By Allen Easterly Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Safety note: Because of drowning danger, 5-gallon buckets with any amount of water in them should never be...

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Choosing a chain saw

Build a portable woodstove for $30

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Farm and Garden

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 When you mention "garden," everybody immediately thinks of sweet corn, green beans, and tomatoes, with a few peppers...

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Growing Microgreens

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Food and recipes

Brining pickles by the quart or gallon

Sweet Pickles

Lazy housewife pickles

Food security 101: Part 1

Self-reliance

Clean up your act!

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

Energy

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Energy class: Part 3

Energy class: Part 1

Battery powered weekend retreat

Guns and Hunting

Picking a holster

By Massad Ayoob Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 One good thing about being out in the boonies by yourself is that you can carry a gun...

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Thoughts on ammunition

Use the right ammunition!

Science

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

By O. E. MacDougal January/February 2016, Backwoods Home Most people don’t know that we’re currently in an ice age and have been for the last 2.58...

The world is ending! … Again?

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

Science and truth. Are they related?

A brief history of health and medicine

Politics and Commentary

Defending against terroristic mass murder

Can an understanding of math and statistics save America’s freedoms?

The destruction of the mass print media will help save freedom in America

Gulf War II opened the eyes of Americans to the UN and the media

Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

...while leaving the carcass and feathers intact! By Dr. Roger W. Grim, D.C. Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Figure 1. With a trash bag properly fitted around...

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

By Kathleen Sanderson Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 I have had dairy goats for most of the last 20 years or so and have raised almost...

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Raising cattle on your own place

Raising rabbits for profit

Home Dairying

Self-Reliance

Essential oils

Breastfeeding — Babies love it, and for good reason

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Defeating debt

Farm and Garden

Gardening Tips and Tricks

By Charles Sanders Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 Gardeners are an ingenious lot. Trial and error, time, study, observation, and experience all help us to come up with ideas that result in better gardens, more produce,...

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Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

By Darlene Polachic Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 Why spend money buying plant starter packs when you can make all you need from old newspapers? The added benefit of these newspaper pots is that they can...

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