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Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Build your own repeating mouse trap

By Allen Easterly Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Safety note: Because of drowning danger, 5-gallon buckets with any amount of water in them should never be...

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

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Install rafters alone the easy way

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

By Edward Love Johnson Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 I began experimenting with mound gardening several years ago, due to limited garden space. Then as time...

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

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...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Constitution of the united States of America

Family dinner at Backwoods Home Magazine

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

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,...

The light at the end of the gun

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...

Understanding the gun debate, part 2

Sgt. Jim Duffy — An ordinary hero

Getting the state out of marriage

Reflections on the Second Amendment

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

...while leaving the carcass and feathers intact! By Dr. Roger W. Grim, D.C. Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Figure 1. With a trash bag properly fitted around...

Raising your own beef

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #175 • January/February/March, 2019 Every time I sit down to enjoy a wonderful beef roast or perfectly grilled steak, I am so...

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

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

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

There’s no such thing as free land!

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

By Nancy Wolcott Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 You are sitting there in your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the day when you can escape to the country and become a...

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

By Jereme Zimmerman  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 Bamboo: The very word evokes an image of groves of tall, leafy plants swaying gently through the air...