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Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Once a day milking

Building

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

By James F. Deaton Website Exclusive • January, 2006 The need to get firewood from a draw below my house to my woodshed started me on...

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Farm and Garden

Gardening Tips and Tricks

By Charles Sanders Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 Gardeners are an ingenious lot. Trial and error, time, study, observation, and experience all help us to come...

Grow Your Own Dishrags

Blueberry Cash Crop

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

The barnyard scramble

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Turkey Tetrazzini

Old-fashioned applesauce cake

Gather rose hips for health

Crawfish fettucine

Self-reliance

Homemade skin care products

Start a fire in any weather

Life-saving snowshoes

Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass

Energy

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Power-up bag

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Guns and Hunting

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 Everything's getting more expensive. Food. Gasoline. Guns and ammunition. Not everyone who appreciates the rural lifestyle was "born...

Picking a holster

Catch your own bait

Affordable firearms

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...