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Animals

Building

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #168 • November/December, 2017 I should have been a mole — it feels so safe and cool and quiet to be underground....

Building your chicken coop

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Build a barrel stove

Easy awnings

Farm and Garden

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

By Setanta O'Ceillaigh <!-- >!>!>!> Make content-2-col-left = 70% if activating this column --> Issue #160 • July/August, 2016 The cycle never ends: As soon as one...

Growing and Using Peppers

The $1 Garden

Plant Once Harvest for Years

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

Americana and History

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Sight and sound enhancement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 Enhancing vision and hearing can make you a safer, more effective shooter, and sometimes can save human lives. Captain...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Catch your own bait

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

The world is ending! … Again?

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

By Jackie Clay Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 When I was a child, I used to read and re-read the chick section in our Sears and...

Redworm farming

By Charles Sanders Issue #112 • July/August, 2008 If you are looking for a way to earn extra income, a retirement job, or even a new...

Raising cattle on your own place

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

By Corcceigh Green Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Isn't it funny how even the things we step on while walking on the lawn have value? I learned this first hand last summer as I discovered some...
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Caring for your chickens in winter

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As winter approaches, we all are thinking of ways to make our livestock and poultry as comfortable as possible when the cold weather hits. Visions of blowing and drifting snow swirl in...
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