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Animals

Get to know your spiders

Good-bye old friend

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Raising Rabbits

Building

The house that Dorothy built

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 This isn't the first time we've had an article by and about...

A cabin for one

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

This coop is for the birds

Easy awnings

Farm and Garden

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as...

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

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

Growing and Using Peppers

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Americana and History

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 —...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

The barnyard scramble

The vanishing outhouse

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Green tomato kosher dill pickles

The chicken and the egg

Bread — The staff of life

Food security 101: Part 1

Self-reliance

Earning money from home

Food security 101, part 3: Why I love my vacuum sealer (and more)

Just for Kids: Take a nite hike!

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

Energy

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Solar hot water systems

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Guns and Hunting

Use the right ammunition!

By Massad Ayoob Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 The purpose of the gun is to fire ammunition. It follows that the ammunition should be the correct...

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Big boomer guns

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...