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Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

By Melissa Souza  Issue #159 • May/June, 2016 My family is committed to becoming as self-sufficient...

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Mid-season planting

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As the saying goes “Life happens…” Maybe events have kept you from getting your garden planted early in the spring. When we...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

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

Biological and chemical weapons through history

There’s no such thing as free land!

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Caring for wounds in the field

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

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...

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

The Coming American Dictatorship Part XI — The Tenth Amendement Movement

Perspectives on the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin shooting

A history lesson from Ayn Rand

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

By Richard Blunt Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 The domestic chicken, or Gallus domesticus as the Romans called it, has lived with humans for centuries. It...

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

By Kathleen Sanderson Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 I have had dairy goats for most of the last 20 years or so and have raised almost...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

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

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

10 ways to make money on your land

By Anita Evangelista Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 It may seem like an impossible dream if you live outside of southern Florida, California, or Texas, but you can grow a home "backyard" orchard of oranges, lemons,...

Fruit Trees

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki variety. Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 There's not one of us who...