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Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Finding the best dog for the country life

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Where our farm animals come from

Building

How to build a good fence for your homestead

By Charles Sanders Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 One of the basic fixtures on a homestead...

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

The Forever Floor

Gabion walls for form and function

Farm and Garden

Companion Planting

By Beverly Mettot Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 Companion planting is nothing new, and yet in recent years it has made an extraordinary comeback, not only...

The Potato Hole

Gardening for Treasure

Growing Productive Strawberries

Build a Keyhole Garden

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

Fried chicken for breakfast

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Constitution of the united States of America

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Apples and sweet potatoes

Louisiana gumbo

Irish coffee

Southern mint julep

Self-reliance

Homemade skin care products

Cold process goat milk soap

In the classroom and at home, this system will help you grow self-reliant kids

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Energy

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Solar Building Design

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Guns and Hunting

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • July, 2008 Fifty years ago, Savage Arms introduced a new bolt-action sporting rifle. In the gun world, this was news....

Choose your ammo… police style

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Sight and sound enhancement

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...