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Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Where our farm animals come from

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Redworm farming

Building

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

By Don Lewis In the last issue of Backwoods Home Magazine, we covered Part 1 of livestock fencing for the small homesteader. The article included...

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

A simple backwoods hay baler

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Farm and Garden

Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online...

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

The greatest American who was never President

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

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

Food and recipes

Bread — The staff of life

If you can boil water you can make a good stew

Eggnog

Tomato-Avocado-Buttermilk Soup

Self-reliance

Homeschooling through high school

Making apple pectin

In the classroom and at home, this system will help you grow self-reliant kids

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Energy

Grid-down battery devices

Solar power for farm and ranch

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Guns and Hunting

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 Everything's getting more expensive. Food. Gasoline. Guns and ammunition. Not everyone who appreciates the rural lifestyle was "born...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Use the right ammunition!

Moderate power firearms

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...