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Animals

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Raising cattle on your own place

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Raising rabbits for profit

Building

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 The thing I like the most about Backwoods Home is that, unlike a lot of other magazines,...

Building a $3,000 Barn

Stairs — The next level

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Farm and Garden

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 While growing up in Detroit, we had no nut trees in our yard (though we did have seedlings...

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Build a Keyhole Garden

The Homestead Greenhouse

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Catfish Biscuits

The time-travel ad

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Food and recipes

How to use those leftovers

Potato Bread

Sweet Potato-Pecan Pie

Boost your immune system with fast and easy fish dishes

Self-reliance

Roger Clark: Cane syrup maker

Learning to love the high desert

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

Small Town America: Thermopolis, WY — Horses and hot springs

Energy

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Solar Food Drying

Prepper power! Part 1

Battery powered weekend retreat

Guns and Hunting

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Affordable firearms

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...