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Animals

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

The homestead cat

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Building

Shake update

By David Lee Website Exclusive • January, 2005 Since my shake article was published in Backwoods Home Magazine, Issue #88, I have learned that some of...

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Build a wood crib with free materials

Farm and Garden

Plant Once Harvest for Years

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 Year after year we start seeds, till the ground, plant, weed, harvest, then tear it all out at...

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Tea for the garden

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

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

Constitution of the united States of America

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Food and recipes

Black & Blue Mango Pie

Venison Chili

Ham and sausage jambalaya

Ashe Torsh

Self-reliance

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

Energy

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Solar Building Design

Energy class: Part 3

Solar-powered refrigerators

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...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Catch your own bait

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

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...