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Animals

Animal disease traceability

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

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

Once a day milking

Building

Building a $3,000 Barn

By Robert Van Putten Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 There comes a time when all homesteaders start thinking of livestock, and 14 years ago, we were...

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Build a pizza oven

The house that Dorothy built

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Farm and Garden

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

By John Murray  Issue #158 • March/April, 2016 For country landowners who desire a way to supplement their income, operating a small roadside farm stand is...

Flowers Brighten the Garden

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

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Americana and History

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Green tomato kosher dill pickles

Tastes Just Like Chicken

Sourdough simplified

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Self-reliance

Storm survivors

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

In the classroom and at home, this system will help you grow self-reliant kids

Energy

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

Battery powered weekend retreat

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Guns and Hunting

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...

Big boomer guns

Cold weather shooting considerations

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Reload your own brass

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...