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Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Redworm farming

Build a poultry killing cone

Raising your own beef for your family

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 chicken house in a day

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Build a wood crib with free materials

Woodbarrow

Farm and Garden

Home-Grown Eggs

By Allen Easterly Issue #165 • May/June, 2017 Maybe you’ve thought about keeping a few chickens for their eggs but didn’t want to be awakened at...

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The time-travel ad

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

Food and recipes

Layered casserole

Goat milk recipes

Nameless salad and dressing

Baked Cod with Summer Squash

Self-reliance

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

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

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Turn your passion into a business

Energy

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Emergency solar power for $950

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Solar Building Design

Guns and Hunting

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Science

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...