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Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Slaughtering and Butchering

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Building

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

By Jane Duquette Issue #148 • July/August, 2014 For delicious squaw candy, start with the freshest fish. One fresh July evening at our summer cabin in Soldotna,...

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

Build a stone wall

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Farm and Garden

Three Raised Bed Designs

By Joe Mooney Issue #150 • November/December, 2014 When it comes to gardening, almost anything can be used to create a raised bed. Tires, blocks, rocks,...

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

The time-travel ad

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

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Puerto Rican Rice With Pork

Dishpan cookies

Kentucky Country Ribs

Do you suffer from gout? Here are some recipes that might help

Self-reliance

City boy, country boy

Tips for finding your affordable home

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Cold process goat milk soap

Energy

Solar suitcase

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Prepper power! Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Affordable firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 Knowing that frugality is one of the cornerstones of rural living, Editor Annie Tuttle suggested that I tackle...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Reload your own brass

Just because

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Science

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...