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Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Raising your own beef

Where our farm animals come from

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

Building

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #38 • March/April, 1996 I got the dreadful call from my son Eric at 2 p.m. on June 29th, 1995, an hour...

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

This coop is for the birds

Farm and Garden

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

By Mark and Lynn Klammer Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 As spring approaches each year, we can hardly wait for the feel of warm earth between...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Pruning Blueberries

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Okra — Not Just for the South

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...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

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

Food and recipes

Wonderful wilderness wines

Shiitake mushrooms

Just for Kids: Some pioneer recipes

Maple Spiced Broiled Salmon

Self-reliance

Preparing for winter

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Fully Involved

For safety’s sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly

Energy

Water pumping windmills

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Add solar power to your truck camper

Power Up

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...

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

How big a gun do you need?

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Firearms — Tools of rural living

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...