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Animals

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Brooder in a box

Finding the best dog for the country life

Beekeeping basics

Building

A cabin for one

By Lee Greiman Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Between 1989 and 1990 I built a 20 by 20-foot log house on the Musselshell River in Montana....

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Make adobe bricks

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Gabion walls for form and function

Farm and Garden

Saving Seeds

By Jackie Clay Issue #129 • May/June, 2011 I go through dozens of garden seed catalogs in preparation for each year's new (and better!) garden. I...

How to Grow Potatoes

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Victory Gardens

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 —...

The vanishing outhouse

Fried chicken for breakfast

Fly it proudly and properly

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Family dinner at Backwoods Home Magazine

Pastoral bread

Grilled Steak with Olive-Blue Cheese Sauce

Baked Beans, Two

Self-reliance

Clean up your act!

Harvest your own firewood

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

The cholesterol in your stovepipe can be fatal

Energy

Water pumping windmills

Solar power trailer Part 1

Power-up bag

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

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...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Use the right ammunition!

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...