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Animals

Raising rabbits for profit

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

Get to know your spiders

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

Building

Gabion walls for form and function

By Joe Mooney Issue #153 • May/June, 2015 I think there has to be something ingrained in the human brain that loves things built of stone....

Building and using wattle fences

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

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

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Farm and Garden

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my...

Blueberry Cash Crop

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Three Raised Bed Designs

Grow some winter squash this year

Americana and History

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

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

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Homemade healthy soba noodles

Homemade Cottage cheese, rhubarb pie, lemon custard pudding cake, pasties, beef stew, biscuits, butter, grouse breast

Apple and berry pies

Ashe Torsh

Self-reliance

Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Homeschooling your dylsexic kid

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Energy

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Prepper power! Part 2

Add solar power to your truck camper

Keep the Ice On

Guns and Hunting

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

By Claire Wolfe Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 My friend Jack pulled the car into a grassy clearing. We donned rubber boots, fetched a metal detector...