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Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising your own beef for your family

Beekeeping basics

Building

Build your own repeating mouse trap

By Allen Easterly Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Safety note: Because of drowning danger, 5-gallon buckets with any amount of water in them should never be...

Small engine maintenance for women

Build an all-purpose ladder

A cabin for one

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Farm and Garden

Propagating Plants

By Jackie Clay Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 We all love the idea of having a big, productive garden, full of all the nutritious, tasty foods...

Gardening for Treasure

Slug Zapper

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Americana and History

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

The time-travel ad

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Constitution of the united States of America

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Turkey the old-fashioned way

Chocolate Babka

Cracklin’s — An irresistible snack that you can’t stop sneakin’

Garlic Soup

Self-reliance

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

Foraging for wild berries

Energy

Solar Building Design

Prepper power! Part 2

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Guns and Hunting

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...