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Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

Animal disease traceability

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

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....

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

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

Build a deluxe barrel stove

Shake update

Farm and Garden

Gardening for Treasure

By Alice B. Yeager Tomatoes are a boon to mankind in health benefits. It doesn't matter whether they are the large...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Americana and History

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

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

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Homemade baking extracts

Dehydrating eggs at home

Canning chickens for the pantry

Artichoke-Spinach Casserole

Self-reliance

A determined Rose Bley escaped the city

Harvest your own firewood

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

There’s no such thing as free land!

Energy

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Homemade electric power

Guns and Hunting

Women and guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 In a time when what used to be called "the women's liberation movement" has achieved many of its...