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Animals

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Raising your own beef for your family

Get to know your spiders

The homestead cat

Building

Build a stone wall

By Charles Sanders Issue #70 • July/August, 2001 The natural beauty of a stone wall has been romanticized in poem and picture for hundreds of years....

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Build a poultry killing cone

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Farm and Garden

The Best City Garden

By Anita Evangelista Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 City gardens and country gardens are differentnot only in the amount of space...

How to Grow Garlic

Tracing a bean

Garden Spaces for Small Places

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Americana and History

The time-travel ad

By John Silveira Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 It's become a minor Internet phenomenon. The ad reads: It's also been read by Jay Leno on his late...

Remembering what grandma used

Catfish Biscuits

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Food and recipes

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Jo’s Kentucky-fried cole slaw

Easy, no-knead bread by Melissa Souza

Spicy Beef

Self-reliance

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

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Vinegar — A splash is all you need for healthful eating, natural healing, and sparkling home

Energy

Build your own battery charging station

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Energy class: Part 1

Hydronic woodstoves

Guns and Hunting

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...