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Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Is that a good pig?

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

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

Building

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

By Charles Sanders Issue #94 • July/August, 2005 Perhaps one of the most important innovations in modern plumbing has been the development of polyvinyl chloride (PVC),...

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

Farm and Garden

Home-Grown Eggs

By Allen Easterly Issue #165 • May/June, 2017 Maybe you’ve thought about keeping a few chickens for their eggs but didn’t want to be awakened at...

Testing Soil

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

The summer of ’35

Remembering what grandma used

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Artichoke-Spinach Casserole

Spicy Beef

Mairead’s Fabulous Flan

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Self-reliance

Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks

Buying the right emergency radio

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

No dentist? Oh, no!

Energy

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Making and using a solar cooker

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

An $89 backup generator

Guns and Hunting

Picking a holster

By Massad Ayoob Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 One good thing about being out in the boonies by yourself is that you can carry a gun...

Canning game meat

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Just because

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Science

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...