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Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Raising rabbits for profit

Where our farm animals come from

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Building

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

By Don Lewis In 1874, a United States patent (#157,124) was issued to Joseph F. Glidden, a long-serving sheriff in DeKalb County, Illinois. His invention...

Woodbarrow

New invention— The Fencerunner

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

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...

Okra — Not Just for the South

Grow some winter squash this year

Sweet Potato Greens

How to Grow Garlic

Americana and History

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Cheesy fish chowder

Basic biscotti cookie

Making Yogurt

Indian Fry Bread

Self-reliance

A determined Rose Bley escaped the city

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Choosing a chain saw

Clean up your act!

Energy

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Solar hot water systems

Power Up

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Guns and Hunting

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

By Massad Ayoob Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 One reader writes to ask if military surplus rifles are still a good idea for hunting, recreational shooting,...

Affordable firearms

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Catch your own bait

Reload your own brass

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...