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Animals

Where our farm animals come from

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

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

Building

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #38 • March/April, 1996 I got the dreadful call from my son Eric at 2 p.m. on June 29th, 1995, an hour...

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Building and using wattle fences

How to build a good fence for your homestead

How to Install a Steel Roof

Farm and Garden

Growing Strawberries

By Patrice Lewis Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 As you read this, the wind may well be howling and the snow piling deep, and you're likely...

How to Grow Great Carrots

Propagating Grapes

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Americana and History

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

The summer of ’35

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Tortellini Soup

Broiled fish fillet with piri piri sauce

Bean Salad With Fresh Herbs

Waldorf salad

Self-reliance

Better wood heating

Homemade skin care products

Dealing with heat stress

Fully Involved

Energy

Build your own battery charging station

Energy class: Part 3

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Guns and Hunting

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

By Mike Blank Issue #89 • September/October, 2004 What follows is my personal quest to acquire an M1 Garand through the Civilian Marks-manship Program (CMP). We've...

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

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...