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Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Is that a good pig?

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Building

Shake update

By David Lee Website Exclusive • January, 2005 Since my shake article was published in Backwoods Home Magazine, Issue #88, I have learned that some of...

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

A house a tornado helped build

Building a $3,000 Barn

Build an all-purpose ladder

Farm and Garden

Naughty Peppers

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 If you are prudish, narrow-minded or puritanical, read no further as this article...

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Love Those Green Beans

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Build Your Own Hoop House

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Remembering what grandma used

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

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

Food and recipes

Pear honey

Fermented dill pickles

Sweet Potato-Pecan Pie

Ten Marinades For Summer

Self-reliance

Turn your passion into a business

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

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Food security 101, part 3: Why I love my vacuum sealer (and more)

Energy

Solar-powered water purifiers

Making and using a solar cooker

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Solar-powered chicken coop

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

Affordable firearms

The light at the end of the gun

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Air power superiority

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...