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Animals

Redworm farming

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Beekeeping basics

Building

A house a tornado helped build

By Robert L. Williams Issue #16 • July/August, 1992 On May 5, 1989, tornadoes ripped through parts of three western North Carolina counties, including ours, and...

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Build a deluxe barrel stove

Building Eric’s house

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

Farm and Garden

Gardening for Treasure

By Alice B. Yeager Tomatoes are a boon to mankind in health benefits. It doesn't matter whether they are the large...

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Companion Planting

Americana and History

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

Catfish Biscuits

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Egg thingies

Chicken Enchiladas

Comfort foods of Ireland – hearty recipes from Grandma’s old file box

Make your own nut butters

Self-reliance

Defeating debt

Foraging for wild berries

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

Just for Kids: Killing some time (Create an afternoon time warp)

Energy

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Guns and Hunting

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

By Claire Wolfe Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 My friend Jack pulled the car into a grassy clearing. We donned rubber boots, fetched a metal detector...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Cold weather shooting considerations

Firearms — Tools of rural living

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...