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Animals

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Raising cattle on your own place

Building

Getting logs

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • March, 2004 Online Exclusive April 2003 Attention: Would-be loggers. There have been changes in policy at the United States Forest Service...

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

Build a Trail

Build a barrel stove

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Farm and Garden

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #74 • March/April, 2002 Are you tired of raising a big row crop gardenone that keeps you busy from dawn until...

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Pruning Blueberries

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Build a Composter

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

The vanishing outhouse

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

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

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

Food and recipes

Shiitake mushrooms

A Native American feast

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Stovetop Teriyaki

Self-reliance

Get out of debt, stay out of debt

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Teach your kids math with the banking game

10 ways to make money on your land

Energy

Build Your Own Car Wash

Portable solar power

Energy class: Part 3

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

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...

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

How big a gun do you need?

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...