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Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Slaughtering and Butchering

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Get to know your spiders

Building

Build a pallet fence

By Clay Sawyer Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 If you have access to various sizes of free pallets, consider this idea for your next fence. Now...

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Farm and Garden

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my...

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Home-Grown Eggs

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

Fly it proudly and properly

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Remembering what grandma used

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

Food and recipes

Just for Kids: Some pioneer recipes

The chicken and the egg

Picking and preserving the wild plum

Tomato and basil sauce

Self-reliance

Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it

Choosing a chain saw

Essential oils

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Solar power for farm and ranch

Energy class: Part 3

Portable solar power

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 In Part I, we began a series of refreshers on safety and proper handling of firearms. This time,...

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Moderate power firearms

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

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...