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Animals

Once a day milking

Raising cattle on your own place

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

The homestead cat

Building

Three Raised Bed Designs

By Joe Mooney Issue #150 • November/December, 2014 When it comes to gardening, almost anything can be used to create a raised bed. Tires, blocks, rocks,...

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

Farm and Garden

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

By Joy Lamb Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 A huge brown beast stared at me as I drove through our apple orchard toward the house. I...

Tea for the garden

How to Grow Garlic

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Americana and History

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

The vanishing outhouse

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

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

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Lamb Curry with Yogurt

Pumpkin preserves

Greens and rhubarb are spring tonics

Tetsukabuto squash pie

Self-reliance

Lessons learned from an ice storm

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Start a fire in any weather

Foraging for wild berries

Energy

Generators alone are not enough

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

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Energy class: Part 3

Guns and Hunting

Firearms and cold weather considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Many of our readers have established their abodes in places which, during the winter months, do not exactly...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

The Appleseed Project

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Science

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...