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Animals

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Beekeeping basics

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Building

This coop is for the birds

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 You can buy a dozen eggs at the supermarket for 99 cents, or you can go out to...

Build Your Own Hoop House

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Farm and Garden

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

By John Murray  Issue #158 • March/April, 2016 For country landowners who desire a way to supplement their income, operating a small roadside farm stand is...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

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...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Remembering what grandma used

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Canning game meat

Potato soup

Here are some simple tips on how to store apples for a long, long time

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Self-reliance

Bartering for bad times

The coffee mug knife sharpener

Just for Kids: Killing some time (Create an afternoon time warp)

The many benefits of garlic

Energy

Solar-powered refrigerators

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

Canning game meat

Of guns and snakes

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Choose your ammo… police style

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...