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Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

Where our farm animals come from

Is that a good pig?

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Building

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

By David Lee Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 The reflected image in the mirrored letters give a "see-through" illusion to the sign and the tree. Stained glass...

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

The Forever Floor

Farm and Garden

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants...

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Pruning Blueberries

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Americana and History

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 —...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Catfish Biscuits

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

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

Food and recipes

Eggplant salad

Cheesy fish chowder

Vegetarian pies

Brining pickles by the quart or gallon

Self-reliance

Dehydrating eggs at home

Garden injuries

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

A guide to buying silver and gold

Energy

Solar-powered water purifiers

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Millenium Vehicles

Guns and Hunting

How big a gun do you need?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 We Americans like to do things in a big way. Big houses. Big cars. Big boats. And, yes,...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Just because

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Science

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

Gee-Whiz: Insects

Politics and Commentary

If you don’t like it here, why don’t you move to another country?

The tenuous hold of honesty in modern America

Talking to your kids about death

My view: Socialism’s promises always end in disaster

Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

By Patrice Lewis Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 Congratulations. You've escaped the city life and are now the proud owners of your little plot of rural...

Build a poultry killing cone

By Allen Easterly Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 You've worked hard and spent many hours raising your pretty flock of meat chickens from eggs or chicks...

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Good-bye old friend

Is that a good pig?

Self-Reliance

Flea market stories and strategies

Essential oils

Paring down for off-grid living

Preparedness for travelers

Farm and Garden

Currants and Gooseberries

By Sylvia Gist Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 Currants and gooseberries all belong to the genus Ribes (pronounced "rye-bees"). There are varieties of currants and gooseberries native to Europe and North America, along with some developed...

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Naughty Peppers

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 If you are prudish, narrow-minded or puritanical, read no further as this article may offend you. If, however, you enjoy a good laugh...

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