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Animals

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

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Keeping homestead animals healthy

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,...

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Solar Building Design

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Farm and Garden

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

By Jackie Clay Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 Although I've been homesteading for more than forty years, there's always something new to learn. (I figure that...

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Fruit Trees

Meat For the Homestead

Growing Productive Strawberries

Americana and History

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

Fly it proudly and properly

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Food and recipes

Emergency casserole

Persimmon bread

Apricot stuffed Lamb Chops

A Native American feast

Self-reliance

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Hypothermia — A real winter danger

Better wood heating

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Energy

Prepper power! Part 2

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

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

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 In Part I, we began a series of refreshers on safety and proper handling of firearms. This time,...

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Affordable firearms

The time for modern; the time for traditional

The light at the end of the gun

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 —...