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Animals

Redworm farming

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Build Your Own Car Wash

By Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 Completed car wash in operation If someone told me a year ago that I would have a...

The house that Dorothy built

Building and using wattle fences

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

How to maintain a dirt road

Farm and Garden

Three Raised Bed Designs

By Joe Mooney Issue #150 • November/December, 2014 When it comes to gardening, almost anything can be used to create a raised bed. Tires, blocks, rocks,...

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Fruit Trees

Home-Grown Eggs

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

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....

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

Grandpa’s justice

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Cheesy fish chowder

Penne with Provencal eggplant and peppers

Easy, no-knead bread by Melissa Souza

Gather rose hips for health

Self-reliance

Survival infection control

Homemade pest traps

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

The return of home emergency shelters takes on a dual-purpose approach

Energy

Solar-powered water purifiers

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

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...

Women and guns

Big boomer guns

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...