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Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Finding the best dog for the country life

Bovine basics for beginners

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

Building

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

By Bill Leonard Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 You can say a great deal in favor of cement block (or, if you prefer, concrete block) building....

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Easy awnings

Farm and Garden

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #173 • September/October, 2018 When compared to our ancestors, we are very lucky to have readily-available tools. Stores are full of anything...

Propagating Grapes

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Americana and History

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Dark moons

Hoppin’ John with fresh asparagus beans

Ginger beer

Ham & Kidney Bean Soup

Self-reliance

Advice from second-time homesteaders

Avoiding heat illness

Shopping to beat inflation

Getting logs

Energy

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Guns and Hunting

Use the right ammunition!

By Massad Ayoob Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 The purpose of the gun is to fire ammunition. It follows that the ammunition should be the correct...

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Air power superiority

Picking a holster

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...