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Animals

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

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Good-bye old friend

Building

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

By Bill Leonard Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 You can say a great deal in favor of cement block (or, if you prefer, concrete block) building....

Easy awnings

Build a graceful footbridge

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

Build a log crib

Farm and Garden

The $1 Garden

By Jonathan Nunan Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 The dollar garden is simple in concept: buy as many seeds as you can for one dollar and...

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Americana and History

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

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

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Southern mint julep

A few favorite recipes and books

Making good jerky

Chicken San Francisco

Self-reliance

Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell

Sewing and using cloth diapers is easier than you think

Better wood heating

Bugging out in place

Energy

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Prepper power! Part 2

Grid-down battery devices

Guns and Hunting

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

By Massad Ayoob Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Jeff Yago, Backwoods Home's energy writer, recently completed a couple of concealed carry handgun courses. The classes apparently...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Just because

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

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...