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

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Build a stone wall

By Charles Sanders Issue #70 • July/August, 2001 The natural beauty of a stone wall has been romanticized in poem and picture for hundreds of years....

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

New invention— The Fencerunner

Building and stocking your pantry

How to Grow Garlic

By Melissa Souza Issue #167 • September/October, 2017 Garlic is easy and rewarding to grow. I use it throughout the year, as it is extremely easy...

Caring for your chickens in winter

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 —...

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

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Adventures of a 9-pound cabbage

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Emergency solar power for $950

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

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...

Understanding the gun debate, part 1

The parasitic nature of bureaucracy

Animal rights loonies save the chickens but ruin the County Fair

Terrorism in America — The armed citizen’s view

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

By Jackie Clay Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 When I was a child, I used to read and re-read the chick section in our Sears and...

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

By Jayn Steidl Thibodeau Issue #36 • November/December, 1995 Have you ever had this happen to you? You've opened the refrigerator door for a cold, refreshing...

Where our farm animals come from

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

Your survival depends on water

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #164 • March/April, 2017 I’ve been growing peppers for more than 50 years now and can’t imagine a garden without them. There are so many different varieties that no matter where you...

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown spinach, there is a world of difference between its taste...