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Animals

Get to know your spiders

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Animal disease traceability

Building

Installing a steel roof

By Norman Bennett Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 One of the reasons steel roofs have become so popular is the simplicity and economy with which they...

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

How safe is your electric fence?

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Farm and Garden

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

By Jereme Zimmerman  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 Bamboo: The very word evokes an image of...

Tracing a bean

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Americana and History

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

The vanishing outhouse

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

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

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

The healthy and tantalizing pomegranate

Kalbi Chim

Pickled nopalitos

Preserving plums

Self-reliance

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Making maple syrup

The return of home emergency shelters takes on a dual-purpose approach

Energy

Emergency solar power for $950

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Guns and Hunting

Use the right ammunition!

By Massad Ayoob Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 The purpose of the gun is to fire ammunition. It follows that the ammunition should be the correct...

Moderate power firearms

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

How big a gun do you need?

Choose your ammo… police style

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...