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Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Build a poultry killing cone

Building

Build a wood crib with free materials

By Mark R. Roach Issue #156 • November/December, 2015 Trying to stack wood so it stays up without falling can be a challenge. Just when you...

A simple backwoods hay baler

Woodbarrow

Three Raised Bed Designs

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Farm and Garden

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

By Tom Kovach Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 Winter is a good time to plan your spring tree plantings, deciding what and where you want to...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

The vanishing outhouse

Catfish Biscuits

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Braised rabbit with red wine

Ginger beer

Canning game meat

Buckboard bacon

Self-reliance

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Preparing for winter

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Based on years of personal experience, here are 10 good tips for homeschooling your children

Energy

Prepper power! Part 2

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Guns and Hunting

Catch your own bait

By Gary Gresh Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 Expensive lures and pricey tackle shop baits can sometimes make fishing an expensive proposition, raising the cost of...

Big boomer guns

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Choose your ammo… police style

Building the coyote rifle

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...