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Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

By Robert Van Putten Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 For a year and a half, we lived in an 18-foot travel trailer while building a straw...

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Claw Hammers

Build a Composter

Farm and Garden

Love Those Green Beans

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #68 • March/April, 2001 Anyone with some gardening space, a sunny location, and good loamy soil with pH 6.0-7.5 can grow...

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Americana and History

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

By John Silveira Issue #31 • January/February, 1995 "What were you listening to when I got to your house? Sounded nice. I don't think I've ever...

The vanishing outhouse

Remembering what grandma used

Fried chicken for breakfast

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Family dinner at Backwoods Home Magazine

Chocolate Babka

The enchanting Chanterelle — Gourmet goodies free from the forest

Asparagus Pasta Salad

Self-reliance

Harvest your own firewood

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Avoiding heat illness

Making apple pectin

Energy

Solar-powered refrigerators

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

An $89 backup generator

Guns and Hunting

Thoughts on ammunition

By Massad Ayoob Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Ammunition is to firearms as gasoline is to automobiles. However, with guns and ammo, the fit isn't quite...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Building the coyote rifle

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...