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Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Raising Rabbits

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Building

Build a compost tumbler

By Joe Mooney Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 A few years back, I caught myself becoming a bit frustrated with my compost pile. It seemed that...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Gabion walls for form and function

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

Farm and Garden

Pruning Blueberries

By Kristina Seleshanko When we purchased our mountaintop homestead, I was excited to discover four blueberry bushes that were already established on our property. Not...

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

Build a Composter

How to become a backyard beekeeper

How to Grow Great Carrots

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

The barnyard scramble

Grandpa’s justice

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Old-fashioned applesauce cake

Tomato and coriander salad

Potato soup

Bread — The staff of life

Self-reliance

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

Make your own firestarters

Learning to love the high desert

Buying the right emergency radio

Energy

Solar-powered chicken coop

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Making and using a solar cooker

Guns and Hunting

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Tailoring guns to females

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Science

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...