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Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Raising your own beef for your family

Get to know your spiders

Building

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

By Bob Van Putten Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 The native peoples of North America were a very practical lot. Over the centuries they developed some...

Build a chicken house in a day

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Installing a steel roof

Build your own portable forge

Farm and Garden

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 My grandson Tommy was probably 50 feet up off the ground when he hollered, "Catch this one,...

The $1 Garden

Build a Heated Germination Bed

The Homestead Greenhouse

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Constitution of the united States of America

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Potato Latkes

Jo’s Kentucky-fried cole slaw

Cool dishes for formal summer dining

Bean-beef casserole

Self-reliance

How to maintain your chimney

The accidental homesteader

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part III

Simplifying simplicity

Energy

Solar Food Drying

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Solar power trailer Part 1

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

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,...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Thoughts on ammunition

Air power superiority

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...