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Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Finding the best dog for the country life

Building

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

By Michael Hackleman Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Hydronic, or radiant floor heating is a method of heating a home, shop, or other building with the...

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Woodbarrow

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Farm and Garden

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 Garlic is one of our oldest herbs on record. Anyone can grow garlic...

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

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Americana and History

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 —...

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

The barnyard scramble

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Thai fried rice

The perfect holiday meal

These salads are hearty dishes

Crispy onion rings

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Visit the great prairies

Buying the right emergency radio

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Energy

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Portable solar power

Power Up

Guns and Hunting

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

By Massad Ayoob Issue #163 • January/February, 2017 Click Here to read Part 1 Click Here to read Part 2 As noted in the two previous parts of...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Catch your own bait

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...