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Animals

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

The homestead cat

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

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

Building

Build a pallet fence

By Clay Sawyer Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 If you have access to various sizes of free pallets, consider this idea for your next fence. Now...

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Build a log crib

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Woodbarrow

Farm and Garden

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

By Patrice Lewis Issue #141 • May/June, 2013 For much of human history, people have tried to prevent things from rotting. Literally every food preservation method...

How to Grow Garlic

Propagating Plants

Build Your Own Hoop House

How to become a backyard beekeeper

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...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Constitution of the united States of America

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Tortellini Soup

Cheddar Breakfast Pizza

Algerian honeyed lamb kebabs

Cheesy fish chowder

Self-reliance

Preparing for civil unrest

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

Funerals don’t have to be expensive

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

Energy

Power Up

Prepper power! Part 1

An $89 backup generator

Water pumping windmills

Guns and Hunting

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

By Mike Blank Issue #89 • September/October, 2004 What follows is my personal quest to acquire an M1 Garand through the Civilian Marks-manship Program (CMP). We've...

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Catch your own bait

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...