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Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Raising cattle on your own place

Never underestimate a woman

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #32 Mar/Apr 1998 (In the May/June issue , we published an article by Dorothy Ainsworth titled "Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log...

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants...

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

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

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

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

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Cultured milk — Food of centenarians

10 tips for selling your homemade product

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Solar power for farm and ranch

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

Choose your ammo… police style

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

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 —...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Something unsaid about Timothy McVeigh’s execution

The black man’s worst enemy is not racism

The Coming American Dictatorship Part XII — The militarization of America’s police forces

The meltdown and the bailout: why, how, and what they mean

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

By Charles Sanders Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 A 450-pound hog will provide a lot of delicious meat. Hogs are raised throughout our neighboring Amish community for...

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

By Allen Easterly Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 Raising quail is inexpensive, easy, provides very healthy low-fat white meat, and supplies the fertilizer you need for...

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Caring for wounds in the field

By Allen Easterly Issue #165 • May/June, 2017 Maybe you’ve thought about keeping a few chickens for their eggs but didn’t want to be awakened at 4:00 AM by a rooster singing “cock-a-doodle-doo.” At this time...

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

By Daniel Furtney Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 Gleaning. You may remember the term from Sunday School or your Bible studies. In the book of Ruth, "gleaning" refers to poor people being allowed to follow a...