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Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Keeping homestead animals healthy

New invention— The Fencerunner

By Dietmar Berg Issue #68 • March/April, 2001 Here's a gadget I developed to run barb or barbless wire. You mount it on the back of...

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

By Corcceigh Green Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Isn't it funny how even the things we step on while walking on the lawn have value? I...

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

The greatest American who was never President

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Homemade Cottage cheese, rhubarb pie, lemon custard pudding cake, pasties, beef stew, biscuits, butter, grouse breast

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

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

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 I take the Springfield Armory rifle out of the box, and savor it. I seldom do that with...

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Firearms — Tools of rural living

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...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Which wars work best? The ones we fight or the ones we avoid?

The ‘Curious Guy’ and the ‘Offended Woman’

Dr. Laura tells her listeners she’s decided to pack a gun

Get to know your spiders

By Jerry Hourigan Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Every landowner and homeowner creates the perfect environment for spiders. Not intentionally, of course, but spiders seem to...

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...

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

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

How to make money from storage building auctions

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

By Nancy Wolcott Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 You are sitting there in your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the day when you can escape to the country and become a...

Growing and Using Peppers

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #164 • March/April, 2017 I’ve been growing peppers for more than 50 years now and can’t imagine a garden without them. There are so many different varieties that no matter where you...