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Animals

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Switch your family to goat’s milk

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

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...

Small engine maintenance for women

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Build a pallet fence

Solar Building Design

Farm and Garden

Plant Once Harvest for Years

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 Year after year we start seeds, till the ground, plant, weed, harvest, then tear it all out at...

Jackie’s Garden Primer

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Build a Keyhole Garden

Build Your Own Hoop House

Americana and History

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

Fly it proudly and properly

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Lenie in the kitchen: Pumpkin sweet bread with walnuts

In search of the perfect cup of coffee

Never too busy to make bread

Creamy white bean soup with kale

Self-reliance

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

7 Mistakes of food storage

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

Medical kits for self-reliant families

Energy

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Energy class: Part 1

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Guns and Hunting

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

By Massad Ayoob Issue #163 • January/February, 2017 Click Here to read Part 1 Click Here to read Part 2 As noted in the two previous parts of...

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Thoughts on ammunition

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

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...