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Animals

Home Dairying

The homestead cat

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Building

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

By Charles Sanders Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 Drying of food as a means of preservation has been around for a long time. Populations in suitably...

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Build a compost tumbler

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....

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Americana and History

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

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

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

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

Fried chicken for breakfast

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

Food and recipes

Mairead’s Fabulous Flan

How to can chopped garlic

Baby bok choy with tofu

Venison Stew

Self-reliance

Harvest your own firewood

A worthwhile journey

Stay clear of young wild animals

Getting logs

Energy

Energy class: Part 1

Emergency solar power for $950

Power-up bag

Build a community assistance recharging station

Guns and Hunting

How big a gun do you need?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 We Americans like to do things in a big way. Big houses. Big cars. Big boats. And, yes,...

Affordable firearms

Just because

Choose your ammo… police style

How to shoot a handgun accurately

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...