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Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

The homestead cat

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Building

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #168 • November/December, 2017 I should have been a mole — it feels so safe and cool and quiet to be underground....

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

Build your own portable forge

Build a log crib

Build a deluxe 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,...

Three Raised Bed Designs

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Currants and Gooseberries

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Baklava

Persimmon cookies

Indian Pudding

Vegetarian pies

Self-reliance

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

There’s no such thing as free land!

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Energy

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Hydronic woodstoves

Is steam power in your future?

Generators alone are not enough

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

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 —...