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Animals

Beekeeping basics

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Brooder in a box

Finding the best dog for the country life

Building

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My family has always been big on birthdays and holidaysincluding Thanksgiving, Christmas, Memorial Day, Fourth of July,...

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

Make adobe bricks

Build a graceful footbridge

Build a barrel stove

Farm and Garden

Blueberry Cash Crop

By Ed Mashburn Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 My almost two-year-old grandson loves blueberries. Put a bowl of those round blue jewels in front of him,...

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Grandpa’s justice

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

Food and recipes

Root vegetable casserole

Indian Pudding

Turkey the old-fashioned way

Blueberry tofu frappe

Self-reliance

Cleaning a well

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

Breastfeeding — Babies love it, and for good reason

Energy

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Power your bug-out bag

Dim bulbs in California

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Guns and Hunting

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

How big a gun do you need?

The Appleseed Project

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...