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Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Beekeeping basics

Get to know your spiders

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Building

Build a deluxe barrel stove

By David Lee Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Winter is coming again, pretty much on schedule in spite of global warming, and it will be cold,...

Woodbarrow

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Build a ski sled

Make adobe bricks

Farm and Garden

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

By Jackie Clay Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 During the crispy fall afternoons, we listen often and intently to the weather forecasts. "It's going to be...

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

Propagating Grapes

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

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 —...

The greatest American who was never President

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Catfish Biscuits

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Ashe Torsh

Adventures of a 9-pound cabbage

Raspberry ketchup

Spicy Beef and Peppers

Self-reliance

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

The coffee mug knife sharpener

Getting out of Dodge — 10 Things I am doing to prepare for the move to the country

Building and stocking your pantry

Energy

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Making and using a solar cooker

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Energy class: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Cold weather shooting considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 Winter will soon be upon us. Cold weather makes a lot of things more difficult. Running. Walking. Navigating...