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Animals

Beekeeping basics

Raising your own beef for your family

Raising rabbits for profit

Slaughtering and Butchering

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....

Gabion walls for form and function

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Farm and Garden

Okra — Not Just for the South

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #58 • July/August, 1999 No one is quite sure about how okra seeds came to this country....

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

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

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Vegetable Scramble

Apple and Potato Soup

American food — It’s as varied as the melting pot

Venison Stew

Self-reliance

Take care of your knife

10 ways to make money on your land

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Homemade Toys! — Easy to make, fun to play with, and great for gifts!

Energy

Making and using a solar cooker

Millenium Vehicles

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Solar Food Drying

Guns and Hunting

How to shoot a handgun accurately

By Massad Ayoob Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 "I want you to do an article on how to shoot a handgun accurately," Dave Duffy told me....

Building the coyote rifle

Air power superiority

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Cold weather shooting considerations

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...