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A contrary guide to feeding animals

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

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

Three Raised Bed Designs

By Joe Mooney Issue #150 • November/December, 2014 When it comes to gardening, almost anything can be used to create a raised bed. Tires, blocks, rocks,...

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

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

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

By Howard Tuckey Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 In less than an hour last fall, I tilled up a 4x8 foot garden bed and planted 250...

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

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...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

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

Making delicious, unthinkable wines

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part III

The art of living in small spaces

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • July, 2008 Fifty years ago, Savage Arms introduced a new bolt-action sporting rifle. In the gun world, this was news....

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...

Science and truth. Are they related?

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

The world’s least-free country

Home handgun defense — Simplicity suffices

Golf’s critical life lessons are under threat

Brooder in a box

By Sylvia Gist Issue #80 • March/April, 2003 It's spring and the farm store has a tempting variety of baby chicks begging for you to take...

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

By Kathleen Sanderson Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 I have had dairy goats for most of the last 20 years or so and have raised almost...

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

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

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Getting out of Dodge — 10 Things I am doing to prepare for the move to the country

How to organize an outdoor canning party

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 While growing up in Detroit, we had no nut trees in our yard (though we did have seedlings before I left home). That didn't stop my parents, though....

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved Water Quality, You...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 It's been well over a decade now since I first heard my friend Pete voice his amazement at my practice of spreading animal manure as a fertilizer....