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Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Slaughtering and Butchering

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Building

How to build a good fence for your homestead

By Charles Sanders Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 One of the basic fixtures on a homestead...

Build a compost tumbler

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Small engine maintenance for women

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

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...

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Currants and Gooseberries

Companion Planting

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The greatest American who was never President

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Poor man’s shrimp cocktail on perch

Pumpkin preserves

Pizza Casserole

Coffee Kringle

Self-reliance

Drawing the line on timber trespass

Making a great rug from the rag bag

Preparing for civil unrest

Storm survivors

Energy

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Waterpower for personal use

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Guns and Hunting

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

By Massad Ayoob Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Jeff Yago, Backwoods Home's energy writer, recently completed a couple of concealed carry handgun courses. The classes apparently...

Big boomer guns

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Tailoring guns to females

Catch your own bait

Science

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...