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Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Building

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

By Charles Sanders Issue #94 • July/August, 2005 Perhaps one of the most important innovations in modern plumbing has been the development of polyvinyl chloride (PVC),...

Easy awnings

How to Install a Steel Roof

Building and stocking your pantry

Adventures with a portable sawmill

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...

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Love Those Green Beans

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

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 —...

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

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Some unusual jellies for your sweet tooth

Grandma’s persimmon pudding

Pear honey

Lentil and meat stew

Self-reliance

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

10 day survival pack for your vehicle for just $25

Making maple syrup

Sew a baby quilt in two days… for a lifetime of memories

Energy

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

Energy class: Part 1

An $89 backup generator

Job site solar power

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...

Use the right ammunition!

Canning game meat

Reload your own brass

Catch your own bait

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...