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Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Bottle-raise a calf

Building

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as...

Build a log crib

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Farm and Garden

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply...

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

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...

Constitution of the united States of America

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Succulent venison stew

Nana V’s fire sauce

Filipino Chicken Stew

Chicken Enchiladas

Self-reliance

Drive your own freshwater well

The Trigger Line

10 ways to make money on your land

No dentist? Oh, no!

Energy

Add solar power to your truck camper

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Guns and Hunting

The time for modern; the time for traditional

By Massad Ayoob Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Traditional "old skool" guns, or the most modern and efficient ballistic hardware that money can buy? I asked...

Choose your ammo… police style

Cold weather shooting considerations

The light at the end of the gun

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...