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Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Raising your own beef

Raising Rabbits

Building

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The homesteading lifestyle can require a number of tools to cultivate the garden, maintain the home, repair the...

How to maintain a dirt road

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Installing a steel roof

Farm and Garden

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 When you mention "garden," everybody immediately thinks of sweet corn, green beans, and tomatoes, with a few peppers...

Tea for the garden

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Grow some winter squash this year

Fermenting Chicken Feed

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...

Catfish Biscuits

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Corned Beef Cakes

Nana V’s holiday corn bread

Hot Artichoke Dip

Spider rice casserole

Self-reliance

Making a great rug from the rag bag

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

10 day survival pack for your vehicle for just $25

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Energy

Grid-down battery devices

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

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...

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Picking a holster

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Science

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...