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Keeping homestead animals healthy

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

By Martin Harris Issue #23 • September/October, 1993 When you strip away all the frills, building construction is nothing more than enclosing a volume of space...

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Build your own log home in the woods

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

By Charles Sanders Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 There are mountains of old tires out there. Americans keep on rolling and tires keep on wearing out....

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

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...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Venison — From the Field to the Fork

Toffee Bars, Maple Kisses, and Chocolate-Nut Cloud Candy

A determined Rose Bley escaped the city

Drive your own freshwater well

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Firearms — Tools of rural living

By Massad Ayoob Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 So, editor Dave Duffy and I got to talking about guns. We agreed that for some people they...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

My View: Learn to Do One Thing Well

Some thoughts on growing older in the backwoods

Slaughtering and Butchering

By Dynah Geissal Issue #23 • September/October, 1993 Fall is butchering time, a period of joy in the harvest of the year's work and of sadness...

Raising your own beef

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #175 • January/February/March, 2019 Every time I sit down to enjoy a wonderful beef roast or perfectly grilled steak, I am so...

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

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

By Christopher and Dolores Lynn Nyerges Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 For some people, home gardening is an expensive pursuit, which seems a bit backward to us. At one time, people gardened because home-grown produce was...

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn Income

By Rebekah L. Cowell Photos by Amanda Egdorf-Sand Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 Vermicomposting takes composting to another level using Eisenia foetida (commonly known as red wiggler, brandling, or manure worms) to break down organic matter such...