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Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

Finding the best dog for the country life

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Building

Build a lean-to greenhouse

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 Just thinking about a greenhouse can stimulate the senses. In our minds' eyes, we can see the filtered...

Build a Groundhog Snare

Solar Building Design

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Farm and Garden

Meat For the Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Meat is often the most expensive portion of our grocery bill, and it is getting more and more...

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Testing Soil

Naughty Peppers

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

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...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Biological and chemical weapons through history

The time-travel ad

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Cultured milk — Food of centenarians

Chocolate Babka

The incredible cattail — The super Wal-Mart of the swamp

Make grape juice the easy way

Self-reliance

Preparing for civil unrest

Call me plumber

Cash in on your household junk

The many benefits of garlic

Energy

Waterpower for personal use

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

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

Making and using a solar cooker

Guns and Hunting

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • July, 2008 Fifty years ago, Savage Arms introduced a new bolt-action sporting rifle. In the gun world, this was news....

Reload your own brass

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Use the right ammunition!

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...