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Animals

Home Dairying

Brooder in a box

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

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

Building

A cabin for one

By Lee Greiman Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Between 1989 and 1990 I built a 20 by 20-foot log house on the Musselshell River in Montana....

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

Build a stone wall

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Gabion walls for form and function

Farm and Garden

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

By Mark and Lynn Klammer Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 As spring approaches each year, we can hardly wait for the feel of warm earth between...

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Tea for the garden

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

Grandpa’s justice

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Homemade baking extracts

Just for Kids: Some pioneer recipes

Pistachios — Historic and healthy nuts

Nameless salad and dressing

Self-reliance

A worthwhile journey

Preparing for civil unrest

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Breastfeeding — A primer

Energy

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Solar Building Design

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

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

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

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...