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Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

Raising cattle on your own place

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

Install rafters alone the easy way

By Robert L. Williams Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 Anyone who has ever worked on roof framing knows that nailing up rafters is a two-man job...

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

Build a Trail

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Farm and Garden

Pruning Blueberries

By Kristina Seleshanko When we purchased our mountaintop homestead, I was excited to discover four blueberry bushes that were already established on our property. Not...

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Propagating Plants

Americana and History

Fried chicken for breakfast

By Danny Fulks Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, is one of those rare writers capable of painting a vivid picture of life back...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Remembering what grandma used

Food and recipes

Fermented dill pickles

Coconut Rice Pudding

Lenie in the kitchen: Pumpkin sweet bread with walnuts

Tahini — A health food par-excellence

Self-reliance

Essential oils

I heat my house by burning corn

Make a quilt out of Levis

Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks

Energy

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Sight and sound enhancement

The light at the end of the gun

Building the coyote rifle

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...