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Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Keeping homestead animals healthy

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...

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Build a Trail

Building and Using Wattle Fences

Our Unconventional House

Farm and Garden

Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online...

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Home-Grown Eggs

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Americana and History

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

By John Silveira Issue #31 • January/February, 1995 "What were you listening to when I got to your house? Sounded nice. I don't think I've ever...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

The summer of ’35

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

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Coffee Kringle

Oregon Grape Jam

Galumbki

Broccoli-Turkey Casserole

Self-reliance

Garden injuries Part 2

Your survival depends on water

The poor man’s ultra-light dual-fuel backpacking stove

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Energy

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Solar hot water systems

Hydronic woodstoves

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

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...

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Air power superiority

Big boomer guns

Picking a holster

Science

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...