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Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

The homestead cat

Building

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

By Armand O. Deblois Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Cold stored fruits and vegetables are the next best thing to fresh-picked. Flavor and texture change little...

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

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Choosing a chain saw

Farm and Garden

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

The $1 Garden

The Best City Garden

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Americana and History

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Catfish Biscuits

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

General Tso’s Chicken

Lamb and Apricot Pilaff

Corned Beef Cakes

Here are some cucumber pickles to make at home

Self-reliance

Teach your kids math with the banking game

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Digging a shallow well

Energy

Power-up bag

Build a community assistance recharging station

Homemade electric power

Power your bug-out bag

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

Use the right ammunition!

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Big boomer guns

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Science

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...