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Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Slaughtering and Butchering

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Building

Woodbarrow

By Setanta O’Ceillaigh When I first abandoned a slum town and fled back to the countryside I gathered and carried firewood with a laundry basket....

Gabion walls for form and function

Building your chicken coop

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Build a barrel stove

Farm and Garden

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

By John Fuchs Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 Leaves are an excellent way to add organic matter to the garden. However, using rawor unprocessedleaves has some...

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Tea for the garden

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Americana and History

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

Catfish Biscuits

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

The greatest American who was never President

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Food and recipes

Apple and Potato Soup

Four Breads for the Bread Machine

Skillet Spanish rice

Canned bacon — Roll your own

Self-reliance

Winter in the High Desert — Understanding the music

There’s no such thing as free land!

Picking your pressure canner — All American or Presto?

No dentist? Oh, no!

Energy

Millenium Vehicles

Solar-powered water purifiers

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Generators alone are not enough

Guns and Hunting

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

By Mike Blank Issue #89 • September/October, 2004 What follows is my personal quest to acquire an M1 Garand through the Civilian Marks-manship Program (CMP). We've...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Use the right ammunition!

Picking a holster

Science

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...