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Building

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

By Roy Martin Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 A hotbed is a miniature greenhouse that is heated to protect new seedlings from cold. The hotbed differs...

Build a chicken tractor

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Build an all-purpose ladder

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Farm and Garden

Fruit Trees

<!-- Fruit trees By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager -->By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki...

How to Grow Garlic

The Homestead Greenhouse

Growing Potatoes in Straw

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Americana and History

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Firearms and cold weather considerations

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Science

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

Zombie Apocalypse

Gee-Whiz: Time

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

By Jackie Clay Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 If you think milk and beef are expensive in the grocery store, then you should think about raising...

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

...while leaving the carcass and feathers intact! By Dr. Roger W. Grim, D.C. Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Figure 1. With a trash bag properly fitted around...

The homestead cat

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

By Patrice Lewis Issue #141 • May/June, 2013 For much of human history, people have tried to prevent things from rotting. Literally every food preservation method we've come up with in the past few thousand years...
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Nut Trees on Your Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 While growing up in Detroit, we had no nut trees in our yard (though we did have seedlings before I left home). That didn't stop my parents, though....
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