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Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

Bottle-raise a calf

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Where our farm animals come from

Building

Build a pallet fence

By Clay Sawyer Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 If you have access to various sizes of free pallets, consider this idea for your next fence. Now...

Small engine maintenance for women

How to maintain a dirt road

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Farm and Garden

Gardening for Treasure

By Alice B. Yeager Tomatoes are a boon to mankind in health benefits. It doesn't matter whether they are the large...

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

The Home Citrus Orchard

Americana and History

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

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Food and recipes

Jamaican Beef Patties

Here are some cucumber pickles to make at home

Turning to turmeric

Honey Crunch Baked Apples

Self-reliance

The Trigger Line

Roger Clark: Cane syrup maker

How to organize an outdoor canning party

Lessons learned from an ice storm

Energy

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

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Guns and Hunting

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...

Sight and sound enhancement

Thoughts on ammunition

Catch your own bait

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

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...