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Animals

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

Good-bye old friend

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Building

Build a graceful footbridge

By Harrison Stone Issue #77 • September/October, 2002 Tap your heels together three times and repeat after me, "There is no place like homeThere is no...

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Renovating old walls

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

Build a poultry killing cone

Farm and Garden

Gardening Tips and Tricks

By Charles Sanders Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 Gardeners are an ingenious lot. Trial and error, time, study, observation, and experience all help us to come...

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

Build a Heated Germination Bed

How to Grow Potatoes

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

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

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

The time-travel ad

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Winter baking warms the house

Layered Casserole & Pea Salad

Jerusalem artichokes with brown rice

Homemade baking extracts

Self-reliance

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Flea market stories and strategies

The accidental homesteader

Small Town America: Thermopolis, WY — Horses and hot springs

Energy

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Solar Building Design

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

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...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Building the coyote rifle

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coastactually, just that...