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Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Once a day milking

Redworm farming

Building

Adventures with a portable sawmill

By Pat Barden Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 I was raised in the suburbs and spent most of my adult life living in apartments and houses...

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Easy awnings

Installing a steel roof

A simple backwoods hay baler

Farm and Garden

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...

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

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

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

The barnyard scramble

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Lamb and black bean tamale pie

Aunt Mildred’s honey cake

Lenie in the kitchen: Pumpkin sweet bread with walnuts

Anne’s Sausage and Cabbage

Self-reliance

Survival infection control

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Bath herbs

Energy

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

An $89 backup generator

Job site solar power

Energy class: Part 3

Guns and Hunting

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

The Appleseed Project

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

Theories of the universe

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Politics and Commentary

Exercising with gadgets

That old survivalist mumbo jumbo and 10 reasons why it makes sense

What is reality?

Getting the state out of marriage

Animals

Redworm farming

By Charles Sanders Issue #112 • July/August, 2008 If you are looking for a way to earn extra income, a retirement job, or even a new...

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

By Margaret Wright Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 When we think of a backwoods dog we generally think of a Pyrenees, German Shepherd, or other breed...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Bottle-raise a calf

Build a poultry killing cone

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Self-Reliance

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

Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell

For safety’s sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

Farm and Garden

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #74 • March/April, 2002 Are you tired of raising a big row crop gardenone that keeps you busy from dawn until dusk? Do you really need to raise enough vegetables to...

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 Everyone likes a good success story, and if I were called upon to name the most successful tree in our small orchard I'd have to say it's...