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Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Building

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

By James F. Deaton Website Exclusive • January, 2006 The need to get firewood from a draw below my house to my woodshed started me on...

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

Build a deluxe barrel stove

Build a Groundhog Snare

How to Install a Steel Roof

Farm and Garden

Pruning Blueberries

By Kristina Seleshanko When we purchased our mountaintop homestead, I was excited to discover four blueberry bushes that were already established on our property. Not...

The Homestead Greenhouse

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Companion Planting

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Americana and History

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

The barnyard scramble

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Honey Crunch Baked Apples

Pistachios — Historic and healthy nuts

Czarist Chicken Salad

Chocolate Babka

Self-reliance

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Preparing for winter

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Take care of your knife

Energy

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Build Your Own Car Wash

Our journey to modern off-grid living

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...

Canning game meat

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Women and guns

Cold weather shooting considerations

Science

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

By O. E. MacDougal January/February 2016, Backwoods Home Most people don’t know that we’re currently in an ice age and have been for the last 2.58...

Gee-Whiz: Insects

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

How big is the solar system?

Politics and Commentary

Tackling the real problems that face us

Concealed carry laws reduce crime

The black man’s worst enemy is not racism

Armed citizens: the deterrent factor

Animals

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...

Keeping homestead animals healthy

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 As a veterinary field technician for more than 20 years, I saw firsthand the frustration and heartbreak when...

Raising Rabbits

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Bovine basics for beginners

Good-bye old friend

Self-Reliance

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

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

Wash day

Farm and Garden

The Potato Hole

By Sylvia Gist Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Carrots go in sand in the green pail and potatoes can be sorted by type into plastic mesh bags. We had talked of putting in a regular root cellar,...

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Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

By Jackie Clay Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 Start your garden this year while the snow is still on the ground. I start all of my own plants from seeds. One of my favorite winter pastimes...

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