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Building

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

By Bill Leonard Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 You can say a great deal in favor of cement block (or, if you prefer, concrete block) building....

Adventures with a portable sawmill

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Install rafters alone the easy way

Farm and Garden

Americana and History

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Remembering what grandma used

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

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...

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

Gee-Whiz: Trees

The many benefits of garlic

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Get to know your spiders

By Jerry Hourigan Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Every landowner and homeowner creates the perfect environment for spiders. Not intentionally, of course, but spiders seem to...

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

By John Silveira Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 What would happen if all the honeybees disappeared? According to some pundits we'd see a collapse in much...

Raising cattle on your own place

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

The Potato Hole

By Sylvia Gist Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Carrots go in sand in the green pail and potatoes can be sorted by type into plastic mesh bags. We had talked of putting in a regular root cellar,...
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Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

By Jackie Clay Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 During the crispy fall afternoons, we listen often and intently to the weather forecasts. "It's going to be clear tonight," I'd tell my late husband, Bob, and my...
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