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Animals

Beekeeping basics

Good-bye old friend

Slaughtering and Butchering

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Rural Building

By Martin Harris Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 From the architect's chair Before beginning any building project, it is usually beneficial, from a time and cost perspective,...

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

A house a tornado helped build

A salvaged oak floor for $5

A river rock shower

Farm and Garden

Growing and Using Peppers

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #164 • March/April, 2017 I’ve been growing peppers for more than 50 years now and can’t imagine a garden without them. There...

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Slug Zapper

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

Remembering what grandma used

The barnyard scramble

The greatest American who was never President

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Cooking with seeds — A surefire way to sow good health into your family’s diet

Family dinner at Backwoods Home Magazine

Basic biscotti cookie

Apple butter

Self-reliance

Roger Clark: Cane syrup maker

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Cold process goat milk soap

Energy

Solar suitcase

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

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

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

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

The light at the end of the gun

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Air power superiority

Choose your ammo… police style

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...