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Animals

Home Dairying

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Raising your own beef

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The homesteading lifestyle can require a number of tools to cultivate the garden, maintain the home, repair the...

A simple backwoods hay baler

Making and using a solar cooker

Build your own log home in the woods

Gabion walls for form and function

Farm and Garden

Flowers Brighten the Garden

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Website Exclusive • March, 2006 Along with raising food plants, I like to tuck in a few flowers...

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Companion Planting

Caring for your chickens in winter

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Remembering what grandma used

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

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

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Chicken chili

Sourdough simplified

Honey Crunch Baked Apples

Boiled crawfish

Self-reliance

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Defeating debt

Preparing for winter

Homemade skin care products

Energy

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Build Your Own Car Wash

Generators alone are not enough

Energy class: Part 3

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Affordable firearms

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Science

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...