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Animals

Get to know your spiders

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Building

Build a stone wall

By Charles Sanders Issue #70 • July/August, 2001 The natural beauty of a stone wall has been romanticized in poem and picture for hundreds of years....

Renovating old walls

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Farm and Garden

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

By Kristina Seleshanko There are few things I enjoy more than snuggling up next to the woodstove with a cup of coffee and my garden...

Okra — Not Just for the South

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

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

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

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

The barnyard scramble

Biological and chemical weapons through history

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Pastoral bread

Oregon Grape Jam

Hot Artichoke Dip

Canning game meat

Self-reliance

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Choosing a chain saw

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

The wonderful world of axes

Energy

Solar Building Design

Solar-powered refrigerators

Making and using a solar cooker

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Affordable firearms

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

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...