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Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

Small engine maintenance for women

By Michelle Richards Issue #24 • November/December, 1993 How many small engines do you have on your homestead? I counted mine the other day and came...

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

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...

The Home Citrus Orchard

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Companion Planting

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Americana and History

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

The time-travel ad

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

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

Food and recipes

Here are some simple tips on how to store apples for a long, long time

Sweet & Sour Cabbage

Persimmon cookies

Elegant desserts for entertaining

Self-reliance

The poor man’s ultra-light dual-fuel backpacking stove

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Small camp security

Sew a baby quilt in two days… for a lifetime of memories

Energy

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Power-up bag

Is steam power in your future?

Guns and Hunting

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

By Massad Ayoob Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Jeff Yago, Backwoods Home's energy writer, recently completed a couple of concealed carry handgun courses. The classes apparently...

Air power superiority

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Moderate power firearms

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Science

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

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...