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Animals

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Where our farm animals come from

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Building

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

By Bob Van Putten Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 The native peoples of North America were a very practical lot. Over the centuries they developed some...

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Build a Trail

Farm and Garden

Fruit Trees

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki...

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Pruning Blueberries

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Gardening for Treasure

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

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

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Elegant desserts for entertaining

Canning Steelhead and Tuna

Raspberry chocolate torte

Smoked Salmon

Self-reliance

Food security 101

Just for Kids: Life in the forest

Wash day

Drawing the line on timber trespass

Energy

Is steam power in your future?

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Solar power trailer Part 1

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Guns and Hunting

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Catch your own bait

Thoughts on ammunition

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...