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How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Where our farm animals come from

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #168 • November/December, 2017 I should have been a mole — it feels so safe and cool and quiet to be underground....

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Plant Once Harvest for Years

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 Year after year we start seeds, till the ground, plant, weed, harvest, then tear it all out at...

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

Constitution of the united States of America

The greatest American who was never President

Greens and rhubarb are spring tonics

Start a post-construction cleaning business

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 Everything's getting more expensive. Food. Gasoline. Guns and ammunition. Not everyone who appreciates the rural lifestyle was "born...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

The light at the end of the gun

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

Concealed carry laws reduce crime

If you want to survive an emergency, look to yourself, not the Government

The black man’s worst enemy is not racism

Do we need a Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights?

The homestead cat

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson We have had at least one cat in our home ever since I was a young child. So it’s no wonder we...

Raising your own beef for your family

By Charles Sanders Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 For most homesteaders, the raising of livestock plays a crucial role in the home based economy. The types...

Raising cattle on your own place

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Keeping homestead animals healthy

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

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Drawing the line on timber trespass

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of...

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're so elusive, like the leprechaun, it seems they don't exist....

The Best City Garden

By Anita Evangelista Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 City gardens and country gardens are differentnot only in the amount of space each can fill, but in the types and quantities of...