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Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Where our farm animals come from

Building

Make adobe bricks

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Last winter I got a phone call from an old friend in Arizona. One of his sons...

Building and stocking your pantry

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

Farm and Garden

Gardening the Year ‘Round

By Alice B. Yeager Website Exclusive • September, 2006 Normally, we gardeners tend to make plans to begin planting our gardens during early spring. We select...

The Homestead Greenhouse

Slug Zapper

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

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

Americana and History

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Constitution of the united States of America

The time-travel ad

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Canning 101 — Pickles, fruits, jams, jellies, etc.

Lamb and Apricot Pilaff

Spiced red beans

Broccoli-Turkey Casserole

Self-reliance

Disaster preparation!

Making maple syrup

The accidental homesteader

Swedish log candle

Energy

Solar-powered water purifiers

Build Your Own Car Wash

Prepper power! Part 2

Energy class: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

By Massad Ayoob Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Jeff Yago, Backwoods Home's energy writer, recently completed a couple of concealed carry handgun courses. The classes apparently...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

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

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...