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Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Building

Making and using a solar cooker

By Joe Radabaugh Issue #30 • November/December, 2004 Solar cooking is a delightful alternative to conventional cooking methods. The solar cookers available today really work and...

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Three Raised Bed Designs

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Farm and Garden

Caring for your chickens in winter

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As winter approaches, we all are thinking of ways to make our livestock and poultry as comfortable as possible when the cold...

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Growing and Using 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 vanishing outhouse

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

Fly it proudly and properly

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Galumbki

Solar Food Drying

Filipino Chicken Stew

Minestrone-hamburger soup

Self-reliance

Breastfeeding — A primer

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Harvest your own firewood

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

Energy

Grid-down battery devices

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Keep the Ice On

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...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...