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Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Goat birthing and raising kids

Finding the best dog for the country life

Slaughtering and Butchering

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....

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Installing a steel roof

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

How safe is your electric fence?

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,...

Growing Microgreens

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Currants and Gooseberries

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Americana and History

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

The greatest American who was never President

The barnyard scramble

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

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

Food and recipes

Sourdough simplified

Chicken with galanga in coconut milk soup

Honey Crunch Baked Apples

Four Breads for the Bread Machine

Self-reliance

This country job really rocks

Make a Sure-Fire Live Trap

Roger Clark: Cane syrup maker

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Energy

How to select the right backup generator

Portable solar power

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...

Of guns and snakes

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Air power superiority

Just because

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...