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Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Build a poultry killing cone

Raising your own beef

Building

Build a graceful footbridge

By Harrison Stone Issue #77 • September/October, 2002 Tap your heels together three times and repeat after me, "There is no place like homeThere is no...

Building and stocking your pantry

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Farm and Garden

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Grow some winter squash this year

Caring for your chickens in winter

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

The time-travel ad

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Food security 101: Part 1

Bob’s basic breads for beginners, bachelors, barbarians, and backwoodsmen

Comfort foods of Ireland – hearty recipes from Grandma’s old file box

Baked Cod with Summer Squash

Self-reliance

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

Paring down for off-grid living

Picking your pressure canner — All American or Presto?

A guide to buying silver and gold

Energy

Battery powered weekend retreat

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Guns and Hunting

Use the right ammunition!

By Massad Ayoob Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 The purpose of the gun is to fire ammunition. It follows that the ammunition should be the correct...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Big boomer guns

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...