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Animals

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Build a poultry killing cone

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

How to Install a Steel Roof

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

Choosing a chain saw

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Woodbarrow

Farm and Garden

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

By Gail Butler Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 When friends stop by for a visit I like to offer them a hospitable and healthful libation of...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Home-Grown Eggs

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Build a Composter

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

Catfish Biscuits

The time-travel ad

Grandpa’s justice

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Fermented dill pickles

Italian Pot Roast

Chow-chow

Successful cold storage

Self-reliance

Sew a baby quilt in two days… for a lifetime of memories

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Raising kids simply

Energy

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Is steam power in your future?

Add solar power to your truck camper

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Reload your own brass

Moderate power firearms

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...

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

The many benefits of garlic

A brief history of health and medicine

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

Politics and Commentary

Which wars work best? The ones we fight or the ones we avoid?

Stumbling over your own stupidity

The world’s least-free country

Helping crackpots kill kids

Animals

Get to know your spiders

By Jerry Hourigan Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Every landowner and homeowner creates the perfect environment for spiders. Not intentionally, of course, but spiders seem to...

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

By Allen Easterly Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 Raising quail is inexpensive, easy, provides very healthy low-fat white meat, and supplies the fertilizer you need for...

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Bovine basics for beginners

Bottle-raise a calf

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Self-Reliance

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Buying the right emergency radio

Simplifying simplicity

Farm and Garden

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

By Jackie Clay Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 There are many things parents can give their children, other than plastic toys or a few bucks to play video games at the mall. And one of the...

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved Water Quality, You...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 It's been well over a decade now since I first heard my friend Pete voice his amazement at my practice of spreading animal manure as a fertilizer....