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Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Animal disease traceability

Building

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

By Jennifer Poindexter Issue #157 • January/February, 2016 Since my family is homesteading on a budget, the task of building a greenhouse had to be done...

Build a chicken house in a day

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

The Forever Floor

Farm and Garden

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 It's been well over a decade now since I first heard my friend Pete voice his amazement...

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

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

The greatest American who was never President

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Do you suffer from gout? Here are some recipes that might help

Breakfast Sausage Casserole

You can become a hardcore forager

Linguini with Clam Sauce

Self-reliance

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Making maple syrup

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Harvest your own firewood

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Millenium Vehicles

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Guns and Hunting

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

By Massad Ayoob Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 One reader writes to ask if military surplus rifles are still a good idea for hunting, recreational shooting,...

Affordable firearms

Choose your ammo… police style

Tailoring guns to females

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...