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Animals

Good-bye old friend

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 The thing I like the most about Backwoods Home is that, unlike a lot of other magazines,...

Getting logs

Build a chicken tractor

Gabion walls for form and function

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Farm and Garden

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Growing Productive Strawberries

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

Catfish Biscuits

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

Fried chicken for breakfast

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Stuffed sweet peppers

Tomato-Avocado-Buttermilk Soup

Lamb and black bean tamale pie

Tahini — A health food par-excellence

Self-reliance

Cut your grocery bill in half

Defeating debt

Sewing and using cloth diapers is easier than you think

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Energy

Power-up bag

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Portable solar power

Homemade electric power

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...