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Animals

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Building

Rural Building

By Martin Harris Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 From the architect's chair Before beginning any building project, it is usually beneficial, from a time and cost perspective,...

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

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

Shake update

Stairs — The next level

Farm and Garden

Propagating Plants

By Jackie Clay Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 We all love the idea of having a big, productive garden, full of all the nutritious, tasty foods...

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Okra — Not Just for the South

Testing Soil

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

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...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

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

Grandpa’s justice

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Homemade baking extracts

Gather rose hips for health

Apple slaw

Grape Leaves Stuffed with Chevre & Figs

Self-reliance

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

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Preparedness for travelers

Turn your passion into a business

Energy

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Power Up

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Waterpower for personal use

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....

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Sight and sound enhancement

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

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...