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Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Raising Rabbits

Building

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

The Forever Floor

Stairs — The next level

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Farm and Garden

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

By Sherry Willis Issue #145 • January/February, 2014 The recent droughts in the midwest have meant hard times for many livestock owners. Areas without irrigation saw...

Build a Composter

Home-Grown Eggs

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Americana and History

Fried chicken for breakfast

By Danny Fulks Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, is one of those rare writers capable of painting a vivid picture of life back...

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

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Fermented dill pickles

Ginger beer

Apricot stuffed Lamb Chops

Family dinner at Backwoods Home Magazine

Self-reliance

Stashing Junk Silver for Bad Times

The joys of making soap

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Stay clear of young wild animals

Energy

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

An $89 backup generator

Solar power trailer Part 1

Build Your Own Car Wash

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

Reload your own brass

Just because

How big a gun do you need?

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

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...

Theories of the universe

Science and truth. Are they related?

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

The coming ice age

Politics and Commentary

What kind of Americans sit on our juries?

Fixing a broken jury system

Which is better, a small town or city?

Turn the poor into capitalists

Animals

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

By Richard Blunt Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 The domestic chicken, or Gallus domesticus as the Romans called it, has lived with humans for centuries. It...

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

By Jayn Steidl Thibodeau Issue #36 • November/December, 1995 Have you ever had this happen to you? You've opened the refrigerator door for a cold, refreshing...

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Raising rabbits for profit

Once a day milking

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Self-Reliance

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Homestead water

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

Farm and Garden

Build Your Own Hoop House

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 I’ve had my own garden for more than half a century, and I have learned a few things after all these years. One of the most valuable things...

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

By Roy Martin Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 A hotbed is a miniature greenhouse that is heated to protect new seedlings from cold. The hotbed differs from a cold frame in that it has an internal...