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Animals

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

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Raising your own beef for your family

Good-bye old friend

Building

Choosing a chain saw

By Steven Gregersen Issue #119 •September/October, 2009 Winter will be here soon and along with winter comes cold weather and high heating bills. Obviously there's nothing...

Our Unconventional House

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

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...

How to Grow Garlic

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

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 —...

Grandpa’s justice

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Layered casserole

Sourdough simplified

Homemade healthy soba noodles

Dishpan cookies

Self-reliance

Survival/utility vest

Picking your pressure canner — All American or Presto?

Shopping to beat inflation

Preparedness for travelers

Energy

Prepper power! Part 2

Solar-powered refrigerators

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Guns and Hunting

Moderate power firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Robert Ruark, the great American writer of the mid-Twentieth Century, was also a big game hunter. One of...

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Just because

Picking a holster

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Testing Soil

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

How big is the solar system?

Politics and Commentary

The Coming American Dictatorship Part XI — The Tenth Amendement Movement

Common sense about burglary prevention

My View: Learn to Do One Thing Well

Next time you see me, don’t be afraid to say, ‘Hello.’

Animals

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

By Karen McGeorge Sanders Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 It seems that farmers always need an extra pair of hands, but finding the money to pay...

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

By Margaret Wright Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 When we think of a backwoods dog we generally think of a Pyrenees, German Shepherd, or other breed...

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Is that a good pig?

Raising your own beef for your family

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Self-Reliance

Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Teach your kids math with the banking game

Farm and Garden

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

By Robert L. Williams Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 My family has made a practice of planting Irish potatoes in the fall rather than in the early spring. We tried it both ways for many years...

Growing the Eternal Tomato

By Leonard Trebor Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 It's an old story to longtime gardeners (and a new story to novices): each spring you buy some superb tomato plants, set them out on May 1 (or...