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Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Finding the best dog for the country life

Build your own log home in the woods

By Jackie Clay (Photos by Bill Spaulding and Jackie Clay) Issue #72 • November/December, 2001 This is the third part of a three-part series. The first two parts...

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online...

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Banana, blueberry, and peach scones

Just for Kids: Some farinaceous folly

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

Emergency solar power for $950

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

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...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

The Coming American Dictatorship Part XI — The Tenth Amendement Movement

Every group needs a black sheep

Should both drugs and guns be legal?

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

By Annie Duffy Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 "If you're going to make something that you want to last, why not start with good quality material,"...

Keeping homestead animals healthy

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 As a veterinary field technician for more than 20 years, I saw firsthand the frustration and heartbreak when...

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

By Christopher and Dolores Lynn Nyerges Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 For some people, home gardening is an expensive pursuit, which seems a bit backward to us. At one time, people gardened because home-grown produce was...

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

By Sherry Willis Issue #145 • January/February, 2014 The recent droughts in the midwest have meant hard times for many livestock owners. Areas without irrigation saw parched earth without a scrap of green anywhere. Corn withered...