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Keeping homestead animals healthy

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

By Don Lewis In the last issue of Backwoods Home Magazine, we covered Part 1 of livestock fencing for the small homesteader. The article included...

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Slug Zapper

By Joel Winters Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 I live in a small clearing in a big forest. This is on the rainy side of the...

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

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...

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

You can safely and easily can your own meat

Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter

Cash in on your household junk

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

Caring for wounds in the field

Nursing: A perfect backwoods career

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

How to shoot a handgun accurately

By Massad Ayoob Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 "I want you to do an article on how to shoot a handgun accurately," Dave Duffy told me....

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Getting rich through generosity

The unheralded roots of America’s freedoms

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

By Linda Slate Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 While searching for a large quantity (five pounds or more) feeder for my backyard flock, I kept running...

Goat birthing and raising kids

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

10 ways to make money on your land

Funerals don’t have to be expensive

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

Buy your country place from the government

By Anita Evangelista Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 It may seem like an impossible dream if you live outside of southern Florida, California, or Texas, but you can grow a home "backyard" orchard of oranges, lemons,...

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #173 • September/October, 2018 When compared to our ancestors, we are very lucky to have readily-available tools. Stores are full of anything you could need and with online shopping, you don’t even...