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Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Raising cattle on your own place

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Five building tricks for super strong framing

By Don Fallick Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 I was standing on the edge of the roof overhang, holding two bundles of asphalt shingles, when my...

Never underestimate a woman

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Farm and Garden

Propagating Grapes

By Sylvia Gist Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 As a kid in western South Dakota, I enjoyed picking wild grapes and using the delightful juice they...

Growing Potatoes in Straw

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

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...

The time-travel ad

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

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Food and recipes

Linguini with Clam Sauce

Cooking from long-term food storage

Making delicious, unthinkable wines

Betty’s Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

Self-reliance

Stay clear of young wild animals

7 Mistakes of food storage

Preparing for civil unrest

Homestead water

Energy

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

Prepper power! Part 2

Power Up

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

Tailoring guns to females

Just because

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

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...