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Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

Is that a good pig?

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

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

Building

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

By Roy Martin Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 A hotbed is a miniature greenhouse that is heated to protect new seedlings from cold. The hotbed differs...

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

The house that Dorothy built

Easy awnings

Farm and Garden

Grow Your Own Dishrags

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Some of us are thrifty beyond measure, even growing our own dishrags. None...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Tracing a bean

Mid-season planting

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

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Fried chicken for breakfast

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

Food and recipes

Sweet & Sour Cabbage

Picking and preserving the wild plum

Glazed spiced mocha brownies

Feeding large families without breaking the bank

Self-reliance

A worthwhile journey

Small camp security

Call me plumber

The cholesterol in your stovepipe can be fatal

Energy

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Power your bug-out bag

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...

Women and guns

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Picking a holster

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

Gee-Whiz: Time

Testing Soil

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Politics and Commentary

The meltdown and the bailout: why, how, and what they mean

Climate Change Theory: science or religion?

Justice Breyer is wrong about the 2nd Amendment

Beautiful Women

Animals

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

By Jayn Steidl Thibodeau Issue #36 • November/December, 1995 Have you ever had this happen to you? You've opened the refrigerator door for a cold, refreshing...

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...

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Raising cattle on your own place

Self-Reliance

Food security 101: part 2

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

A young couple moves to the country

Getting logs

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Garlic

By Melissa Souza Issue #167 • September/October, 2017 Garlic is easy and rewarding to grow. I use it throughout the year, as it is extremely easy to store. Garlic is one of the most commonly used...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our root cellar where they will keep for up to six...