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Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

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

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Animal disease traceability

Building

Rural Building

By Martin Harris Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 Q. We have just purchased 15 acres, and our question is how to install our septic system, how...

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Farm and Garden

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...

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

How to Grow Garlic

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

The barnyard scramble

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

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

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Ruth’s old-fashioned zucchini pickles

Canned bacon — Roll your own

CHILI MANIA — This all-American food came out of Texas to conquer the whole culinary world

Root vegetable casserole

Self-reliance

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Fire resistant property

Getting logs

Just for Kids: Killing some time (Create an afternoon time warp)

Energy

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Solar power for farm and ranch

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

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Picking a holster

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

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...