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Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Is that a good pig?

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Raising rabbits for profit

Building

How safe is your electric fence?

By Eloise Twining I’ve used solar powered electric fencing on my California ranch for at least 35 years. Over that time electric fencing has proved...

A river rock shower

Build Your Own Hoop House

Building Eric’s house

Building a $3,000 Barn

Farm and Garden

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

By Lisa LaFreniere Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 Bush Beans, or snap beans as they're sometimes referred to, are a growing favorite among many gardeners, and...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Tea for the garden

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

The vanishing outhouse

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

Food and recipes

Banana-Apricot Bars

Lemon-Tarragon Veal

Eggplant salad

Do you suffer from gout? Here are some recipes that might help

Self-reliance

Picking your pressure canner — All American or Presto?

Moving on: A small town can be a haven during a depression

Garden injuries

Your survival depends on water

Energy

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Waterpower for personal use

Millenium Vehicles

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Guns and Hunting

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

Picking a holster

Catch your own bait

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

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...