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Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

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

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Animal disease traceability

Building

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

By Patrice Lewis One of the advantages of living a homesteading lifestyle is participants can kick aside the ever-changing concepts of what constitutes “classy” home...

Installing a steel roof

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Build a Trail

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Farm and Garden

Fruit Trees

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki...

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Build a Heated Germination Bed

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

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...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

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

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

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

The perfect holiday meal

General Tso’s Chicken

Veal Goulash

Fireplace cooking cures the winter blues

Self-reliance

Learning to love the high desert

Wash day

Based on years of personal experience, here are 10 good tips for homeschooling your children

Making maple syrup

Energy

Solar hot water systems

Solar Food Drying

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Picking a holster

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...