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Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Building

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • May, 2010 Grandma Clara used to delight in telling us the story of our Dad's first complete sentence at age...

Build a poultry killing cone

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Stairs — The next level

Gabion walls for form and function

Farm and Garden

Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet....

Build Your Own Hoop House

Grow some winter squash this year

Saving Seeds

The Homestead Greenhouse

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

Fly it proudly and properly

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

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Chicken with galanga in coconut milk soup

Beef & Wild Mushroom Lasagna

Bologna sandwiches and roasted rabbit

7 Mistakes of food storage

Self-reliance

Learning to love the high desert

Turn your passion into a business

Choosing a chain saw

A young couple moves to the country

Energy

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Solar Building Design

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 One of our readers e-mailed John Silveira to tell him that taking a handgun afield after a long...

Big boomer guns

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Affordable firearms

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...