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Animals

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Raising Rabbits

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

By Michael Hackleman Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Hydronic, or radiant floor heating is a method of heating a home, shop, or other building with the...

Three Raised Bed Designs

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Stairs — The next level

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Farm and Garden

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

By Christopher and Dolores Lynn Nyerges Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 For some people, home gardening is an expensive pursuit, which seems a bit backward to...

Propagating Grapes

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Slug Zapper

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

The barnyard scramble

The greatest American who was never President

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Sweet Ginger Eggs

Homemade healthy soba noodles

Jambalaya stew

Czarist Chicken Salad

Self-reliance

The wonderful world of axes

Bugging out in place

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Shopping to beat inflation

Energy

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Homemade electric power

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Guns and Hunting

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

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Cold weather shooting considerations

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

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...