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Animals

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Beekeeping basics

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

Woodbarrow

By Setanta O’Ceillaigh When I first abandoned a slum town and fled back to the countryside I gathered and carried firewood with a laundry basket....

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Build a pizza oven

Build a poultry killing cone

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Farm and Garden

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

By Charles Sanders Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 Tomatoes are one of the most favored of all garden crops. They originated in South America, but in...

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Sweet Potato Greens

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Americana and History

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

Fly it proudly and properly

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Biological and chemical weapons through history

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Pistachio-Mocha Chicken

Here are some cucumber pickles to make at home

Sweet & Sour Cabbage

Stuffed Mushrooms – Greek Style

Self-reliance

Make a quilt out of Levis

A guide to buying silver and gold

Fully Involved

The wonderful world of axes

Energy

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Water pumping windmills

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Guns and Hunting

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

By Massad Ayoob Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 One reader writes to ask if military surplus rifles are still a good idea for hunting, recreational shooting,...

How big a gun do you need?

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Air power superiority

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...