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Keeping homestead animals healthy

Goat birthing and raising kids

Rural Building

By Martin Harris Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 From the architect's chair Before beginning any building project, it is usually beneficial, from a time and cost perspective,...

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Growing Potatoes in Straw

By Habeeb Salloum Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 Virtually unknown to people in other parts of the world, the inhabitants in the Northern European countries have...

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

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

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Recipes from my mother’s kitchen

Poor man’s shrimp cocktail on perch

Can she bake an apple pie, Billy Boy?

Just for Kids: Life in the forest

Jackie’s tips for hardcore homesteading

Stay clear of young wild animals

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Battery powered weekend retreat

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...

Something unsaid about Timothy McVeigh’s execution

My View: Gaining an Appreciation for Risk

Stumbling over your own stupidity

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

By Charles Sanders Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 A 450-pound hog will provide a lot of delicious meat. Hogs are raised throughout our neighboring Amish community for...

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

By Margaret Wright Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 When we think of a backwoods dog we generally think of a Pyrenees, German Shepherd, or other breed...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Homeschooling through high school

Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 While growing up in Detroit, we had no nut trees in our yard (though we did have seedlings before I left home). That didn't stop my parents, though....

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

By Corcceigh Green Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Isn't it funny how even the things we step on while walking on the lawn have value? I learned this first hand last summer as I discovered some...