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Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Goat birthing and raising kids

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

By Rick Brannan Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 There are few things more frustrating and dangerous than working with a dull knife. In my quest for...

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Every person who is striving for self-reliance should, and most do, plant a garden from which to raise...

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Grouse Hunting — The Ultimate Joy of Autumn

What to do when there’s no doctor

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Air power superiority

When a well-placed shot is required, when stealth and quiet are called for, an air rifle may be the best option. By Gary Lewis Issue #151 • January/February,...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Choose your ammo… police style

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

The light at the end of the gun

Gee-Whiz: Time

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2016, Backwoods Home Time. We can’t see, feel, hear, smell, or taste it, but we can measure it and we break it...

A brief history of health and medicine

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

ID cards are an idea whose time should never come

The Government gorilla in our home

Get to know your spiders

By Jerry Hourigan Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Every landowner and homeowner creates the perfect environment for spiders. Not intentionally, of course, but spiders seem to...

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

By Darlene Polachic Issue #75 • May/June, 2002 If Henry Soderberg's predictions are right, Dorper sheep could revolutionize the meat sheep industry. A South African breed...

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Keeping homestead animals healthy

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

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....

The Potato Hole

By Sylvia Gist Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Carrots go in sand in the green pail and potatoes can be sorted by type into plastic mesh bags. We had talked of putting in a regular root cellar,...