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Animals

Where our farm animals come from

Brooder in a box

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Building

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

By Melissa Souza  Issue #159 • May/June, 2016 My family is committed to becoming as self-sufficient...

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

Building and stocking your pantry

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Farm and Garden

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants...

The Homestead Greenhouse

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

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...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

The time-travel ad

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Galumbki

Apple butter

Dragon’s breath chili

Duane’s shrimp dip

Self-reliance

No dentist? Oh, no!

New yarn from old sweaters

7 Mistakes of food storage

Choosing a chain saw

Energy

Millenium Vehicles

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Solar-powered refrigerators

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

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...