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Animals

Get to know your spiders

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

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Bovine basics for beginners

Building

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

By Don Lewis In 1874, a United States patent (#157,124) was issued to Joseph F. Glidden, a long-serving sheriff in DeKalb County, Illinois. His invention...

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Renovating old walls

The house that Dorothy built

Shake update

Farm and Garden

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

By John Murray  Issue #158 • March/April, 2016 For country landowners who desire a way to supplement their income, operating a small roadside farm stand is...

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Americana and History

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

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

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Baked Beans, Two

Algerian honeyed lamb kebabs

Raspberry ketchup

Salmon loaf

Self-reliance

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Medical kits for self-reliant families

Drawing the line on timber trespass

Power Up

Energy

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Solar suitcase

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Guns and Hunting

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 Everything's getting more expensive. Food. Gasoline. Guns and ammunition. Not everyone who appreciates the rural lifestyle was "born...