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Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

Redworm farming

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

Build a stone wall

By Charles Sanders Issue #70 • July/August, 2001 The natural beauty of a stone wall has been romanticized in poem and picture for hundreds of years....

Shelves and benches

Stairs — The next level

Solar Building Design

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Farm and Garden

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Americana and History

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

The greatest American who was never President

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

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Jambalaya stew

Grilled Chicken with Pineapple-Peach Sauce

Artichoke Omelet Appetizer

Asparagus Pasta Salad

Self-reliance

Digging a shallow well

7 Mistakes of food storage

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Paring down for off-grid living

Energy

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Guns and Hunting

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

By Massad Ayoob Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Jeff Yago, Backwoods Home's energy writer, recently completed a couple of concealed carry handgun courses. The classes apparently...

Choose your ammo… police style

Big boomer guns

Air power superiority

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...