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Switch your family to goat’s milk

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Finding the best dog for the country life

Build a pallet fence

By Clay Sawyer Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 If you have access to various sizes of free pallets, consider this idea for your next fence. Now...

New invention— The Fencerunner

Build a chicken house in a day

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

By Glenn Willis, Jr. Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Several years ago my sister and her husband had an 8-horse gas-powered rototiller that went belly up....

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Biological and chemical weapons through history

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

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Jackie’s tips for hardcore homesteading

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

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...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

How to shoot a handgun accurately

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...

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

Do rural homeowners need guns for self-defense?

The unheralded roots of America’s freedoms

If you don’t like it here, why don’t you move to another country?

Animal rights loonies save the chickens but ruin the County Fair

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

By Jayn Steidl Thibodeau Issue #36 • November/December, 1995 Have you ever had this happen to you? You've opened the refrigerator door for a cold, refreshing...

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

By Jackie Clay Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 When I was a child, I used to read and re-read the chick section in our Sears and...

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Winter in the High Desert — Understanding the music

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

By Jackie Clay Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 Although I've been homesteading for more than forty years, there's always something new to learn. (I figure that if I don't learn at least one thing every day,...

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn Income

By Rebekah L. Cowell Photos by Amanda Egdorf-Sand Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 Vermicomposting takes composting to another level using Eisenia foetida (commonly known as red wiggler, brandling, or manure worms) to break down organic matter such...