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Animals

Animal disease traceability

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Raising Rabbits

Building

Shelves and benches

By David Lee Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Money doesn't buy happiness but it sure does buy a lot of stuff. If it is nice stuff...

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

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,...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Growing Productive Strawberries

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Naughty Peppers

Americana and History

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

The barnyard scramble

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

Fly it proudly and properly

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Lamb and Apricot Pilaff

Salmon candy and pickles — Two unique ways to enjoy your next catch

Skillet Spanish rice

Puerto Rican Rice With Pork

Self-reliance

Building and stocking your pantry

Cast iron

Homestead helpers

Winter in the High Desert — Understanding the music

Energy

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Millenium Vehicles

Build a community assistance recharging station

Guns and Hunting

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

By Claire Wolfe Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 My friend Jack pulled the car into a grassy clearing. We donned rubber boots, fetched a metal detector...

Building the coyote rifle

Choose your ammo… police style

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Use the right ammunition!

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...