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Animals

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Build a pallet fence

By Clay Sawyer Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 If you have access to various sizes of free pallets, consider this idea for your next fence. Now...

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Make adobe bricks

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Great Carrots

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #153 • May/June, 2015 Carrots are an old-time homesteader favorite. They can be frozen, canned, dehydrated, or simply stored in a cool...

Three Raised Bed Designs

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Propagating Grapes

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Grandpa’s justice

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

Food and recipes

Brew your own root beer

Fiery Frittata

Fermented dill pickles

Nana V’s holiday corn bread

Self-reliance

Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

There’s no such thing as free land!

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Energy

Build your own battery charging station

Hydronic woodstoves

Water pumping windmills

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Guns and Hunting

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

How big a gun do you need?

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...