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Animals

Good-bye old friend

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Get to know your spiders

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Building

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The homesteading lifestyle can require a number of tools to cultivate the garden, maintain the home, repair the...

How safe is your electric fence?

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Rural Building

Farm and Garden

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Nearly all of us homesteaders grow tomatoes in our gardens. Tomatoes are hugely valuable as a homestead crop....

Okra — Not Just for the South

How to Grow Great Carrots

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

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 —...

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Fly it proudly and properly

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Food and recipes

Zucchini with green chilies

Make sourdough with wild yeast

Grouse Hunting — The Ultimate Joy of Autumn

Woodstove cooking

Self-reliance

Storm survivors

Power Up

Fully Involved

Funerals don’t have to be expensive

Energy

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Build a community assistance recharging station

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Guns and Hunting

Firearms and cold weather considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Many of our readers have established their abodes in places which, during the winter months, do not exactly...

Reload your own brass

Building the coyote rifle

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Just because

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...