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Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Building

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • May, 2010 Grandma Clara used to delight in telling us the story of our Dad's first complete sentence at age...

Build an all-purpose ladder

Claw Hammers

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

Rural Building

Farm and Garden

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Propagating Plants

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Growing Potatoes in Straw

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

Remembering what grandma used

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

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

Food and recipes

Coconut Rice Pudding

These chocolate treats make great gifts and delicious holiday desserts

Wonderful wilderness wines

Baked Cod with Summer Squash

Self-reliance

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Essential oils

The Trigger Line

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

Energy

Homemade electric power

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Guns and Hunting

Big boomer guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 For you long time readers, I know what you're thinkin'"Hey, isn't this the guy who within the last...