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Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

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

Build a poultry killing cone

Building

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

By Don Lewis In the last issue of Backwoods Home Magazine, we covered Part 1 of livestock fencing for the small homesteader. The article included...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Solar Building Design

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

This coop is for the birds

Farm and Garden

Garden Spaces for Small Places

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden. Minnie Aumonier Yes, and if...

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Growing Strawberries

Americana and History

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

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

Biological and chemical weapons through history

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Egg thingies

Making Yogurt

Canning meat plus how to use your canned meat

Introduction to water bath canning

Self-reliance

Choosing a chain saw

Power Up

Lessons learned from an ice storm

Picking your pressure canner — All American or Presto?

Energy

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

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Solar power trailer Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Cold weather shooting considerations

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...