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Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

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

Raising your own beef

Where our farm animals come from

Building

Renovating old walls

By David Lee Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Some years ago my wife and I were out searching for a new building lot when we fell...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Building and Using Wattle Fences

Build a log crib

Farm and Garden

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

By Rebekah L. Cowell Photos by Amanda Egdorf-Sand Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 Vermicomposting takes composting to another level using Eisenia foetida (commonly known as red wiggler,...

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Propagating Grapes

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

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Tabbouleh

Four Pepper Pheasant

Some unusual jellies for your sweet tooth

Self-reliance

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Tips for finding your affordable home

Power your bug-out bag

Breastfeeding — Babies love it, and for good reason

Energy

Solar Building Design

Grid-down battery devices

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Guns and Hunting

Picking a holster

By Massad Ayoob Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 One good thing about being out in the boonies by yourself is that you can carry a gun...

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Cold weather shooting considerations

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Science

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...