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Animals

Beekeeping basics

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

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

Where our farm animals come from

Building

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

The Forever Floor

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Build a wood crib with free materials

Farm and Garden

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s...

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Home-Grown Eggs

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

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

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Food and recipes

Dandelion recipes

Crispy onion rings

Italian Pot Roast

CHILI MANIA — This all-American food came out of Texas to conquer the whole culinary world

Self-reliance

Turn your passion into a business

Picking your pressure canner — All American or Presto?

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Medicinal uses of garlic

Energy

Energy class: Part 1

Portable solar power

Hydronic woodstoves

Solar suitcase

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Sight and sound enhancement

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...