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Animals

Raising rabbits for profit

Where our farm animals come from

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

Getting logs

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • March, 2004 Online Exclusive April 2003 Attention: Would-be loggers. There have been changes in policy at the United States Forest Service...

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

Build a barrel stove

Farm and Garden

Growing Potatoes in Straw

By Habeeb Salloum Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 Virtually unknown to people in other parts of the world, the inhabitants in the Northern European countries have...

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Naughty Peppers

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

The barnyard scramble

Catfish Biscuits

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

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

CHILI MANIA — This all-American food came out of Texas to conquer the whole culinary world

Pot Roast With Spaghetti

Peanut Soup

Ham & Kidney Bean Soup

Self-reliance

Survival storeroom

Making a great rug from the rag bag

Dollar Store to the Rescue

Just for Kids: Life in the forest

Energy

Solar power for farm and ranch

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Solar-powered refrigerators

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Guns and Hunting

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...