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Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Build a poultry killing cone

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Good-bye old friend

Building

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

By Jane Duquette Issue #148 • July/August, 2014 For delicious squaw candy, start with the freshest fish. One fresh July evening at our summer cabin in Soldotna,...

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Rural Building

New invention— The Fencerunner

Shake update

Farm and Garden

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...

Build Your Own Hoop House

Pruning Blueberries

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

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

Catfish Biscuits

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Food and recipes

Pickled nopalitos

Dark moons

Salmon loaf

Brew your own root beer

Self-reliance

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

Moving on: A small town can be a haven during a depression

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

Energy

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

Solar-powered refrigerators

Water pumping windmills

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Guns and Hunting

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

By Massad Ayoob Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 One reader writes to ask if military surplus rifles are still a good idea for hunting, recreational shooting,...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Canning game meat

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...