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Animals

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

Bottle-raise a calf

Redworm farming

Raising cattle on your own place

Building

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

By Don Lewis In the last issue of Backwoods Home Magazine, we covered Part 1 of livestock fencing for the small homesteader. The article included...

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Build an all-purpose ladder

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Farm and Garden

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Nearly all of us homesteaders grow tomatoes in our gardens. Tomatoes are hugely valuable as a homestead crop....

Propagating Plants

Blueberry Cash Crop

Testing Soil

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

Catfish Biscuits

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

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Recipes from my mother’s kitchen

Dehydrating eggs at home

Root vegetable casserole

Peanut Soup

Self-reliance

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

Buying the right emergency radio

Homemade skin care products

Saving money on the homestead

Energy

Portable solar power

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Women and guns

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

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...