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Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Building

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

By James Ballou Issue #74 • March/April, 2002 A certain degree of self reliance is obtainable by those who have the knowledge and skills, resourcefulness, courage,...

Build an all-purpose ladder

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Build a pizza oven

Farm and Garden

Home-Grown Eggs

By Allen Easterly Issue #165 • May/June, 2017 Maybe you’ve thought about keeping a few chickens for their eggs but didn’t want to be awakened at...

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Growing Productive Strawberries

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Love Those Green Beans

Americana and History

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

The vanishing outhouse

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Hamburger soup

Dublin Coddle

Four Breads for the Bread Machine

Cooking from long-term food storage

Self-reliance

Homemade skin care products

Avoiding heat illness

Preparing for winter

Frostbite — Don’t flirt with this sneaky danger

Energy

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Is steam power in your future?

Dim bulbs in California

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 In Part I, we began a series of refreshers on safety and proper handling of firearms. This time,...

Use the right ammunition!

Canning game meat

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Cold weather shooting considerations

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...