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Animals

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

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Raising your own beef

Building

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

By Patrice Lewis One of the advantages of living a homesteading lifestyle is participants can kick aside the ever-changing concepts of what constitutes “classy” home...

Three Raised Bed Designs

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

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

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Farm and Garden

Propagating Grapes

By Sylvia Gist Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 As a kid in western South Dakota, I enjoyed picking wild grapes and using the delightful juice they...

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Build a Keyhole Garden

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

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

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

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

Food and recipes

Honey whole wheat bread

Bean-beef casserole

Potato soup

Making apple pectin

Self-reliance

Tips for finding your affordable home

Small camp security

Homemade Toys! — Easy to make, fun to play with, and great for gifts!

Keeping tools sharp

Energy

Solar-powered refrigerators

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Build your own battery charging station

Guns and Hunting

How to shoot a handgun accurately

By Massad Ayoob Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 "I want you to do an article on how to shoot a handgun accurately," Dave Duffy told me....

Moderate power firearms

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...