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Animals

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

Build a poultry killing cone

Bottle-raise a calf

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Building

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #172 • July/August, 2018 Like most young folks today, our son David graduated high school, got a job, and went to college...

Build a compost tumbler

Build a barrel stove

Three Raised Bed Designs

Build a stone wall

Farm and Garden

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

By Joe Mooney Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 I've always found the use of seasonal rains by native peoples very fascinating. From the diversion of floodwaters...

Growing Strawberries

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

The Homestead Greenhouse

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

Fried chicken for breakfast

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

Constitution of the united States of America

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Spicy Beef and Peppers

Breakfast Cereal

Jamaican Beef Patties

Four Pepper Pheasant

Self-reliance

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it

Survival infection control

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Energy

Grid-down battery devices

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Build Your Own Car Wash

Water pumping windmills

Guns and Hunting

Women and guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 In a time when what used to be called "the women's liberation movement" has achieved many of its...

The time for modern; the time for traditional

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Picking a holster

Building the coyote rifle

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...