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Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Raising your own beef for your family

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

The homestead cat

Building

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

By Charles Sanders Issue #94 • July/August, 2005 Perhaps one of the most important innovations in modern plumbing has been the development of polyvinyl chloride (PVC),...

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

The house that Dorothy built

Install rafters alone the easy way

Farm and Garden

Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet....

Companion Planting

Pruning Blueberries

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Okra — Not Just for the South

Americana and History

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

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

Fly it proudly and properly

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

The summer of ’35

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter

Dishpan cookies

Making apple pectin

Lentil and meat stew

Self-reliance

Homestead helpers

How to maintain your chimney

A worthwhile journey

Cash in on your household junk

Energy

Job site solar power

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Guns and Hunting

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

By Massad Ayoob Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Jeff Yago, Backwoods Home's energy writer, recently completed a couple of concealed carry handgun courses. The classes apparently...

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

How big a gun do you need?

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...