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Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Good-bye old friend

Raising your own beef

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Building

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #172 • July/August, 2018 Like most young folks today, our son David graduated high school, got a job, and went to college...

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

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

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Build Your Own Hoop House

Farm and Garden

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply...

Build a Keyhole Garden

Propagating Plants

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

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...

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Italian Pot Roast

Pistachio-Mocha Chicken

Sourdough simplified

Self-reliance

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Just for Kids: Knock knock vinegar

Garden injuries

I heat my house by burning corn

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Waterpower for personal use

Guns and Hunting

Affordable firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 Knowing that frugality is one of the cornerstones of rural living, Editor Annie Tuttle suggested that I tackle...

Women and guns

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Sight and sound enhancement

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...