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Animals

Is that a good pig?

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Building

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

By Jennifer Poindexter Issue #157 • January/February, 2016 Since my family is homesteading on a budget, the task of building a greenhouse had to be done...

A river rock shower

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Build a compost tumbler

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Farm and Garden

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

By Charles Sanders Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 Tomatoes are one of the most favored of all garden crops. They originated in South America, but in...

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Blueberry Cash Crop

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Build Your Own Hoop House

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 —...

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

Fly it proudly and properly

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

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Persimmon cookies

Sweet Potato-Pecan Pie

The perfect holiday meal

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Self-reliance

Wash day

Picking your pressure canner — All American or Presto?

Survival infection control

New yarn from old sweaters

Energy

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

How to select the right backup generator

Guns and Hunting

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

By Massad Ayoob Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 One reader writes to ask if military surplus rifles are still a good idea for hunting, recreational shooting,...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

The Appleseed Project

Catch your own bait

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...