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Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Once a day milking

Raising your own beef for your family

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Building

How to Install a Steel Roof

By Morgan Barker  Issue #159 • May/June, 2016 Steel roofing isn't just for factories and barns...

Making and using a solar cooker

Build an all-purpose ladder

A cabin for one

Rural Building

Farm and Garden

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 After originating in the semi-arid regions of the middle east, espaliering (is-'pal-yer-ing) became a commonly employed fruit...

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Mid-season planting

Slug Zapper

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...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Food and recipes

Southern cooking that doesn’t just whistle Dixie

Bacon-Avocado Potato Salad

Emergency casserole

Root vegetable casserole

Self-reliance

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

Energy

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Solar Building Design

Water pumping windmills

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Guns and Hunting

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...