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Animals

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Bottle-raise a calf

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Building

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

By Patrice Lewis One of the advantages of living a homesteading lifestyle is participants can kick aside the ever-changing concepts of what constitutes “classy” home...

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Build a compost tumbler

Building and stocking your pantry

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Farm and Garden

Currants and Gooseberries

By Sylvia Gist Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 Currants and gooseberries all belong to the genus Ribes (pronounced "rye-bees"). There are varieties of currants and gooseberries...

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

The Best City Garden

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

Catfish Biscuits

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Food and recipes

Wild edibles in delectable dishes

Cannellini Bean And Mushroom Casserole

Fail-proof white bread

Anne’s Sausage and Cabbage

Self-reliance

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Garden injuries

Homestead helpers

Energy

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Solar suitcase

Guns and Hunting

Picking a holster

By Massad Ayoob Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 One good thing about being out in the boonies by yourself is that you can carry a gun...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

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...

A brief history of health and medicine

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

Politics and Commentary

An American dollar worth two cents

Why I’m nice to telemarketers

Magnesium and the International Criminal Court

Here are some answers to often-asked questions of anti-gunners

Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

By Dynah Geissal Issue #23 • September/October, 1993 Fall is butchering time, a period of joy in the harvest of the year's work and of sadness...

Is that a good pig?

By Kim Dieter Issue #129 • May/June, 2011 Lean ham, roasts, chops, savory sausage, and thick slices of bacon are the reason pigs are raised at...

Raising cattle on your own place

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

Animal disease traceability

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Self-Reliance

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

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

Garden injuries

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Farm and Garden

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...

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The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply is a primary objective. To that end, some consideration will...

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