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Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Build a poultry killing cone

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Building

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

By Jay Stoler Issue #117 • May/June, 2009 Fiber cement board siding is one of a number of siding materials that is replacing wood these days...

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Build a Heated Germination Bed

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Farm and Garden

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Propagating Plants

The Home Citrus Orchard

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Americana and History

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

Constitution of the united States of America

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Fly it proudly and properly

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Homemade Cottage cheese, rhubarb pie, lemon custard pudding cake, pasties, beef stew, biscuits, butter, grouse breast

Making delicious, unthinkable wines

Mexican Stuffed Shells

Elk Roast With Cranberries

Self-reliance

13 steps to a life of freedom

How to organize an outdoor canning party

Just for Kids: Life in the forest

Drive your own freshwater well

Energy

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Solar-powered chicken coop

Solar-powered water purifiers

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

Of guns and snakes

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Choose your ammo… police style

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...