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Animals

Raising your own beef

Raising your own beef for your family

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Building

How to maintain a dirt road

By Marjorie Burris Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 It is our job to maintain two and one half miles of dirt road if we want to...

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

A house a tornado helped build

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Farm and Garden

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 It's been well over a decade now since I first heard my friend Pete voice his amazement...

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Caring for your chickens in winter

Build Your Own Hoop House

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...

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

The barnyard scramble

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Making Yogurt

Baked chili relleno casserole

Here are some tasty ways to use those end-of-season green tomatoes

Chicken and dumpling stew

Self-reliance

Jackie’s tips for hardcore homesteading

How we found our remote backwoods home

The fire wick fire starter

Nursing: A perfect backwoods career

Energy

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

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...