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Animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Raising Rabbits

Raising your own beef for your family

Once a day milking

Building

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #168 • November/December, 2017 I should have been a mole — it feels so safe and cool and quiet to be underground....

Build a Composter

A salvaged oak floor for $5

A cabin for one

Building a $3,000 Barn

Farm and Garden

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

Slug Zapper

Naughty Peppers

Grow Your Own Dishrags

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Americana and History

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Catfish Biscuits

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Food and recipes

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

Indian Fry Bread

Corn and nopalito salsa

Food security 101: part 2 — Convenience mixes make life easier

Self-reliance

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

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

Pump water for free

A canoe livery — An honest, clean business

Energy

How to select the right backup generator

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Solar-powered chicken coop

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Choose your ammo… police style

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...