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Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Good-bye old friend

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Building

Stairs — The next level

By Skip Thomsen Website Exclusive • August, 2004 Any good carpenter can build a staircase. What we're talking about here is taking that staircase to the...

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Easy awnings

Build your own portable forge

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Farm and Garden

Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online...

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Growing Productive Strawberries

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Companion Planting

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

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

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Vidalia Onion Pie

Tetsukabuto squash pie

Here are some cucumber pickles to make at home

Pecan twerps

Self-reliance

Foraging for wild berries

Sew a baby quilt in two days… for a lifetime of memories

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Wash day

Energy

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Solar Power 101: Inverters

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Solar Food Drying

Guns and Hunting

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...

The light at the end of the gun

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

The Appleseed Project

Moderate power firearms

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...