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Animals

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Animal disease traceability

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Building

Three Raised Bed Designs

By Joe Mooney Issue #150 • November/December, 2014 When it comes to gardening, almost anything can be used to create a raised bed. Tires, blocks, rocks,...

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Build a ski sled

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Farm and Garden

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #173 • September/October, 2018 When compared to our ancestors, we are very lucky to have readily-available tools. Stores are full of anything...

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Three Raised Bed Designs

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Home-Grown Eggs

Americana and History

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...

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Grandpa’s justice

The summer of ’35

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

Food and recipes

Oregon Grape Jam

Nana V’s fire sauce

Bean-beef casserole

You can become a hardcore forager

Self-reliance

Flea market stories and strategies

Simplifying simplicity

How to make money from storage building auctions

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Energy

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Prepper power! Part 2

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

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...

Tailoring guns to females

Affordable firearms

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...