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Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Raising Rabbits

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

By Don Lewis In the last issue of Backwoods Home Magazine, we covered Part 1 of livestock fencing for the small homesteader. The article included...

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Build a chicken house in a day

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Farm and Garden

Meat For the Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Meat is often the most expensive portion of our grocery bill, and it is getting more and more...

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Americana and History

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

Catfish Biscuits

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Remembering what grandma used

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

Food and recipes

Raspberry chocolate torte

Cultured milk — Food of centenarians

Greens and rhubarb are spring tonics

Salsa

Self-reliance

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Survival firebuilding skills

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Brood X

Energy

Portable solar power

Millenium Vehicles

Power-up bag

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 In Part I, we began a series of refreshers on safety and proper handling of firearms. This time,...