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Animals

Building

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

By Thomas Brewer Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 I am not ambidextrous. My wife, Judith, uses chopsticks with either hand or even both hands at once....

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Build a graceful footbridge

Making and using a solar cooker

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Farm and Garden

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

By Gail Butler Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 When friends stop by for a visit I like to offer them a hospitable and healthful libation of...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Plant Once Harvest for Years

The Potato Hole

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

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

Fried chicken for breakfast

Grandpa’s justice

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 One of our readers e-mailed John Silveira to tell him that taking a handgun afield after a long...

Canning game meat

Choose your ammo… police style

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Science

Gee-Whiz: Time

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2016, Backwoods Home Time. We can’t see, feel, hear, smell, or taste it, but we can measure it and we break it...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Science and truth. Are they related?

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

Gee-Whiz: Insects

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

By Allen Easterly Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 You've worked hard and spent many hours raising your pretty flock of meat chickens from eggs or chicks...

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...

Beekeeping basics

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

The homestead cat

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants still need a boost throughout the growing season. We like...
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For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

By Edward Love Johnson Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 I began experimenting with mound gardening several years ago, due to limited garden space. Then as time went by, I found other reasons (or should I say...
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