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Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

A cabin for one

By Lee Greiman Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Between 1989 and 1990 I built a 20 by 20-foot log house on the Musselshell River in Montana....

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Install rafters alone the easy way

New invention— The Fencerunner

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our...

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

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 —...

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

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Feeding large families without breaking the bank

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

The art of living in small spaces

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

How to shoot a handgun accurately

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

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...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

A brief history of health and medicine

Why bureaucracy will likely destroy America

Defending against terroristic mass murder

A history lesson from Ayn Rand

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

By Charles Sanders Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 A 450-pound hog will provide a lot of delicious meat. Hogs are raised throughout our neighboring Amish community for...

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

By Annie Duffy Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 "If you're going to make something that you want to last, why not start with good quality material,"...

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

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Raising your own beef for your family

Moving on: A small town can be a haven during a depression

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 If you are prudish, narrow-minded or puritanical, read no further as this article may offend you. If, however, you enjoy a good laugh...

Growing Potatoes in Straw

By Habeeb Salloum Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 Virtually unknown to people in other parts of the world, the inhabitants in the Northern European countries have for hundreds of years grown potatoes above ground in straw...