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Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising cattle on your own place

Building

Build a ski sled

By Kai Moessle Issue #138 • November/December, 2012 Since my property is almost half a mile away from the nearest road and I can't keep the...

A simple backwoods hay baler

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

The Forever Floor

Woodbarrow

Farm and Garden

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s...

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Okra — Not Just for the South

Americana and History

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

Fried chicken for breakfast

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

The best apple pie you’ll ever bake

Dill-onion bread

Herbed cheese

Stovetop Teriyaki

Self-reliance

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Cut your grocery bill in half

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Energy

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

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Add solar power to your truck camper

Guns and Hunting

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

Of guns and snakes

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Catch your own bait

Just because

Science

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...