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Animals

Once a day milking

A contrary guide to feeding animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Get to know your spiders

Building

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

By Dynah Geissal Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 When we moved to our land in the summer of 1994, we were fortunate that open grazing exists...

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Shake update

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Farm and Garden

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

By Joy Lamb Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 A huge brown beast stared at me as I drove through our apple orchard toward the house. I...

Fruit Trees

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Pruning Blueberries

Americana and History

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

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Fried chicken for breakfast

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

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

Food and recipes

General Tso’s Chicken

Creamed Carrot Soup

Old-fashioned hot dog pepper relish

Anne’s Sausage and Cabbage

Self-reliance

Homestead helpers

Dealing with heat stress

The 7 core areas of preparedness

Woodstove cooking

Energy

Dim bulbs in California

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Solar hot water systems

Guns and Hunting

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

By Massad Ayoob Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Jeff Yago, Backwoods Home's energy writer, recently completed a couple of concealed carry handgun courses. The classes apparently...

Big boomer guns

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Sight and sound enhancement

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Science

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 —...