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Animals

Is that a good pig?

Raising your own beef for your family

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Building

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #172 • July/August, 2018 Like most young folks today, our son David graduated high school, got a job, and went to college...

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Our Unconventional House

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

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

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...

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

Gardening for Treasure

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Growing and Using Bamboo on the 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 —...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

The vanishing outhouse

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Piccalilli — A late summer bonus

Making dandelions palatable

Self-reliance

Bugging out in place

Cast iron

Hypothermia — A real winter danger

Make your own firestarters

Energy

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

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

Prepper power! Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Sight and sound enhancement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 Enhancing vision and hearing can make you a safer, more effective shooter, and sometimes can save human lives. Captain...

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Tailoring guns to females

Just because

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...