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Animals

Home Dairying

Animal disease traceability

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Building

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

By Jennifer Poindexter Issue #157 • January/February, 2016 Since my family is homesteading on a budget, the task of building a greenhouse had to be done...

Shelves and benches

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Farm and Garden

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Tracing a bean

Propagating Plants

Tea for the garden

Americana and History

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

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

The time-travel ad

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Minestrone-hamburger soup

Salmon loaf

Never too busy to make bread

Traditional trail foods — Transportable calories

Self-reliance

10 ways to make money on your land

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

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Better wood heating

Energy

Build Your Own Car Wash

Millenium Vehicles

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Science

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 —...