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Animals

Raising rabbits for profit

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Redworm farming

Building

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

How to Install a Steel Roof

How to maintain a dirt road

Farm and Garden

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

By Daniel Furtney Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 Gleaning. You may remember the term from Sunday School or your Bible studies. In the book of Ruth,...

Pruning Blueberries

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Growing and Using Peppers

The Homestead Greenhouse

Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

Catfish Biscuits

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

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Easy homemade dairy products

Making sausage

Two beans and wild asparagus salad

Grouse Hunting — The Ultimate Joy of Autumn

Self-reliance

The wonderful world of axes

Vinegar — A splash is all you need for healthful eating, natural healing, and sparkling home

13 steps to a life of freedom

Winter in the High Desert — Understanding the music

Energy

Portable solar power

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Guns and Hunting

How big a gun do you need?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 We Americans like to do things in a big way. Big houses. Big cars. Big boats. And, yes,...

The light at the end of the gun

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Just because

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Science

Gee-Whiz: Time

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2016, Backwoods Home Time. We can’t see, feel, hear, smell, or taste it, but we can measure it and we break it...

The coming ice age

Zombie Apocalypse

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

Testing Soil

Politics and Commentary

Terrorist attack! Was this predictable?

A Republic vs. A Democracy

Things kids should learn before leaving high school, but don’t

Putting it all on the Amtrak line for Self-Reliance magazine

Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

By Dynah Geissal Issue #23 • September/October, 1993 Fall is butchering time, a period of joy in the harvest of the year's work and of sadness...

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...

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Home Dairying

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Once a day milking

Self-Reliance

Small Town America: Thermopolis, WY — Horses and hot springs

Teaching the joy of reading

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

Swedish log candle

Farm and Garden

Companion Planting

By Beverly Mettot Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 Companion planting is nothing new, and yet in recent years it has made an extraordinary comeback, not only in fooling those pesky pests who thrive on fruits and...

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Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

By Setanta O'Ceillaigh  Issue #160 • July/August, 2016 The cycle never ends: As soon as one garden pest is dealt with, another takes its place. Last...

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