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Animals

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

Beekeeping basics

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

Build a chicken house in a day

By Anita Evangelista Issue #136 • July/August, 2012 We built our chicken house for around $200. We could have done it for less if we were...

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Build a Groundhog Snare

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

Build a chicken tractor

Farm and Garden

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

By Charles Sanders Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 There are mountains of old tires out there. Americans keep on rolling and tires keep on wearing out....

Currants and Gooseberries

Naughty Peppers

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

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...

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

The summer of ’35

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Pistachio-Mocha Chicken

Hummus

Venison Chili

Pickled nopalitos

Self-reliance

Cleaning a well

Storing dry foods

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

Dollar Store to the Rescue

Energy

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Use the right ammunition!

Tailoring guns to females

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...