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Animals

Raising your own beef

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Animal disease traceability

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Building

A cabin for one

By Lee Greiman Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Between 1989 and 1990 I built a 20 by 20-foot log house on the Musselshell River in Montana....

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Farm and Garden

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

By Kristina Seleshanko There are few things I enjoy more than snuggling up next to the woodstove with a cup of coffee and my garden...

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Growing Productive Strawberries

Americana and History

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

Remembering what grandma used

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

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

Food and recipes

Recipes from my mother’s kitchen

Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter

Food security 101: part 2 — Convenience mixes make life easier

Family dinner at Backwoods Home Magazine

Self-reliance

The adventures of a first-time homesteader

Just for Kids: Killing some time (Create an afternoon time warp)

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Energy

Solar power trailer Part 1

Job site solar power

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Solar Building Design

Guns and Hunting

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 I take the Springfield Armory rifle out of the box, and savor it. I seldom do that with...

Canning game meat

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Tailoring guns to females

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...