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Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

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

Bovine basics for beginners

Beekeeping basics

Building

Build a poultry killing cone

By Allen Easterly Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 You've worked hard and spent many hours raising your pretty flock of meat chickens from eggs or chicks...

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Choosing a chain saw

Making and using a solar cooker

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Farm and Garden

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're...

Grow Your Own Dishrags

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Tea for the garden

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The summer of ’35

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

If you can boil water you can make a good stew

The real “Q” — Barbecue the way it’s supposed to be

Baby bok choy with tofu

Lentil and meat stew

Self-reliance

Choosing a chain saw

A guide to buying silver and gold

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Energy

Power your bug-out bag

An $89 backup generator

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...

Just because

Big boomer guns

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

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...