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Animals

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Animal disease traceability

Good-bye old friend

Building

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

By Robert Van Putten Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 For a year and a half, we lived in an 18-foot travel trailer while building a straw...

Making and using a solar cooker

Build a poultry killing cone

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Easy awnings

Farm and Garden

Fruit Trees

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki...

Growing Productive Strawberries

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Grandpa’s justice

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Food and recipes

Butterpeas

Concord Sherbet

Family dinner at Backwoods Home Magazine

Pistachio-Mocha Chicken

Self-reliance

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

Better wood heating

Pump water for free

Food security 101: part 2

Energy

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Build your own battery charging station

Solar-powered chicken coop

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Guns and Hunting

Picking a holster

By Massad Ayoob Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 One good thing about being out in the boonies by yourself is that you can carry a gun...

Tailoring guns to females

Big boomer guns

How to shoot a handgun accurately

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...