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Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Animal disease traceability

The homestead cat

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Building

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 Backwoods folk, or in my case, mountain folk, are typically very resourceful, utilizing whatever is on hand...

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

Build a stone wall

A house a tornado helped build

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

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,...

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Caring for your chickens in winter

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Americana and History

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

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

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Here are some simple tips on how to store apples for a long, long time

French Onion Soup

Hummingbird Cake

Beef & Wild Mushroom Lasagna

Self-reliance

Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

A worthwhile journey

Energy

Emergency solar power for $950

Solar-powered water purifiers

Solar hot water systems

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

Guns and Hunting

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • July, 2008 Fifty years ago, Savage Arms introduced a new bolt-action sporting rifle. In the gun world, this was news....

Canning game meat

Of guns and snakes

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Science

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...