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Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Raising rabbits for profit

Building

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

By Dynah Geissal Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 When we moved to our land in the summer of 1994, we were fortunate that open grazing exists...

Build a log crib

Shake update

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Build your own log home in the woods

Farm and Garden

Growing Productive Strawberries

By Edna Manning Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 Here on the Canadian prairies, I have found strawberries to be perhaps one of the most delicious, least-demanding...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Slug Zapper

Mid-season planting

Americana and History

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Avoiding common canning mistakes

Sweet Potato-Pecan Pie

Cauliflower-Ham Chowder

Whole grain breads baked at home

Self-reliance

Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it

Making maple syrup

Just for Kids: Knock knock vinegar

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Energy

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Dim bulbs in California

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...

Canning game meat

The time for modern; the time for traditional

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Big boomer guns

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...