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Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Bovine basics for beginners

Once a day milking

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Building

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

By Jacqueline Tresl Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 Milling a board with a chainsaw lumber-maker. Figure1: The pieces. Beams, joists and walls were made with a chainsaw mill. Figure...

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

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

Farm and Garden

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

By Jereme Zimmerman  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 Bamboo: The very word evokes an image of...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

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 —...

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

The summer of ’35

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Winter baking warms the house

Waldorf salad

Cheesy fish chowder

Here are some simple tips on how to store apples for a long, long time

Self-reliance

Digging a shallow well

Building and stocking your pantry

Frostbite — Don’t flirt with this sneaky danger

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

Energy

Build a community assistance recharging station

Solar power trailer Part 1

Solar Building Design

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Thoughts on ammunition

By Massad Ayoob Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Ammunition is to firearms as gasoline is to automobiles. However, with guns and ammo, the fit isn't quite...

Sight and sound enhancement

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Women and guns

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Science

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 —...