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Animals

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

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

The homestead cat

Building

Build a pizza oven

By Mike Lorenzen Issue #143 • September/October, 2013 About a year ago, my wife and I traveled around Italy by car. We had lots of wood-fired...

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Farm and Garden

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done...

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Growing Microgreens

Victory Gardens

Americana and History

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Fly it proudly and properly

Biological and chemical weapons through history

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Pickled chili peppers

Egg thingies

Hamburger soup

Chicken chili

Self-reliance

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

The fire wick fire starter

Funerals don’t have to be expensive

Energy

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Solar Food Drying

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

How big a gun do you need?

Firearms — Tools of rural living

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Building the coyote rifle

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...