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Animals

Get to know your spiders

Goat birthing and raising kids

Slaughtering and Butchering

Animal disease traceability

Building

Never underestimate a woman

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #32 Mar/Apr 1998 (In the May/June issue , we published an article by Dorothy Ainsworth titled "Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log...

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

Build your own log home in the woods

A river rock shower

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Farm and Garden

Currants and Gooseberries

By Sylvia Gist Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 Currants and gooseberries all belong to the genus Ribes (pronounced "rye-bees"). There are varieties of currants and gooseberries...

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

The Homestead Greenhouse

Growing and Using Peppers

Americana and History

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

By John Silveira Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 It was snowing and three of us were up at the office. Dave Duffy, the fellow who publishes...

The summer of ’35

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Remembering what grandma used

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Food and recipes

7 Mistakes of food storage

Canned bacon — Roll your own

Jambalaya stew

Chocolate Babka

Self-reliance

Building and stocking your pantry

Homestead helpers

Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass

New yarn from old sweaters

Energy

Build a community assistance recharging station

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Water pumping windmills

Dim bulbs in California

Guns and Hunting

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Moderate power firearms

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Women and guns

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 —...