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Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Bottle-raise a calf

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Home Dairying

Building

Building your chicken coop

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Here's a coop we built from pallets and scrap lumber. The goats lived in one end and the...

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Never underestimate a woman

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Farm and Garden

Fruit Trees

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki...

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

The Homestead Greenhouse

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Americana and History

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

The vanishing outhouse

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Remembering what grandma used

Food and recipes

Chicken Saltimbocca with Escarole

Hamentaschen

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Bread — The staff of life

Self-reliance

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Picking your pressure canner — All American or Presto?

Woolen winter mittens in minutes

Medicinal uses of garlic

Energy

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

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...

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Big boomer guns

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Choose your ammo… police style

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...