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Animals

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Where our farm animals come from

Fermenting Chicken Feed

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

By Jane Duquette Issue #148 • July/August, 2014 For delicious squaw candy, start with the freshest fish. One fresh July evening at our summer cabin in Soldotna,...

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

A house a tornado helped build

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

How to maintain a dirt road

Farm and Garden

Build a Keyhole Garden

By Katelynn Bond Issue #152 • March/April, 2015 One of the hazards of living on the side of a mountain in northern New Mexico is that...

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Pruning Blueberries

Americana and History

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

The barnyard scramble

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Colorado Cowboy Cookies

The dandelion is a healthful, great tasting weed you can eat

Fiery Frittata

Dandelion recipes

Self-reliance

Fully Involved

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

Energy

An $89 backup generator

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Solar Food Drying

Add solar power to your truck camper

Guns and Hunting

Use the right ammunition!

By Massad Ayoob Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 The purpose of the gun is to fire ammunition. It follows that the ammunition should be the correct...

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...