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Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Raising your own beef

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Redworm farming

Building

How to Install a Steel Roof

By Morgan Barker  Issue #159 • May/June, 2016 Steel roofing isn't just for factories and barns...

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Building and using wattle fences

Small engine maintenance for women

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Farm and Garden

Gardening for Treasure

By Alice B. Yeager Tomatoes are a boon to mankind in health benefits. It doesn't matter whether they are the large...

Okra — Not Just for the South

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Fruit Trees

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Persimmon bread

Making hard cider

Modify your oven to bake great bread

Country-style Pork Stew

Self-reliance

Disaster preparation!

Preparing for winter

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

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Energy

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

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

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Guns and Hunting

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 I take the Springfield Armory rifle out of the box, and savor it. I seldom do that with...

Tailoring guns to females

Cold weather shooting considerations

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

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...