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Animals

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Beekeeping basics

Brooder in a box

Building

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

By Charles Sanders Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 Drying of food as a means of preservation has been around for a long time. Populations in suitably...

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Build a Groundhog Snare

Small engine maintenance for women

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Farm and Garden

Slug Zapper

By Joel Winters Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 I live in a small clearing in a big forest. This is on the rainy side of the...

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Sweet Potato Greens

Americana and History

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

Fried chicken for breakfast

Fly it proudly and properly

Catfish Biscuits

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

Food and recipes

Baked barbeque beans

Making Yogurt

Deconstructing a bowl of red

Linguini with Clam Sauce

Self-reliance

Woodstove cooking

There’s no such thing as free land!

Digging a shallow well

Woolen winter mittens in minutes

Energy

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Solar power for farm and ranch

Add solar power to your truck camper

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

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

How big a gun do you need?

Use the right ammunition!

The time for modern; the time for traditional

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...