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Animals

Get to know your spiders

Raising your own beef for your family

Slaughtering and Butchering

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Building

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

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #43 • January/February, 1997 I know that there are a lot of really fine products available for turning logs into lumber,...

Build a stone wall

Build your own log home in the woods

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Building Eric’s house

Farm and Garden

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

By Daniel Furtney Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 Gleaning. You may remember the term from Sunday School or your Bible studies. In the book of Ruth,...

Grow some winter squash this year

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Pruning Blueberries

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...

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

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Garlic Soup

Banana-Apricot Bars

The best apple pie you’ll ever bake

Beans for Sarah

Self-reliance

Making a great rug from the rag bag

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Getting logs

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Energy

Solar power for farm and ranch

Is steam power in your future?

Power your bug-out bag

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

Guns and Hunting

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • July, 2008 Fifty years ago, Savage Arms introduced a new bolt-action sporting rifle. In the gun world, this was news....

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Sight and sound enhancement

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...