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Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Build a poultry killing cone

Raising your own beef

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Build a homestead Copy Cart

By Charles Sanders Issue #45 • July/August, 1997 I don't know too many homesteaders, gardeners, or small farmers who haven't at one time or another wished...

Build a deluxe barrel stove

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

Gabion walls for form and function

Easy awnings

Farm and Garden

How to become a backyard beekeeper

By Sheri Jones If you’ve been intrigued by the idea of becoming a beekeeper but think you don’t have the space, resources, or knowledge, you’re...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Build Your Own Hoop House

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Americana and History

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

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

Catfish Biscuits

Remembering what grandma used

Food and recipes

Canning Steelhead and Tuna

Pickled Sweet Green Tomatoes

Challah

The healthy and tantalizing pomegranate

Self-reliance

Cold process goat milk soap

Medicinal uses of garlic

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

Nursing: A perfect backwoods career

Energy

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Solar-powered water purifiers

Guns and Hunting

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

By Mike Blank Issue #89 • September/October, 2004 What follows is my personal quest to acquire an M1 Garand through the Civilian Marks-manship Program (CMP). We've...

Catch your own bait

Thoughts on ammunition

The light at the end of the gun

Building the coyote rifle

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...