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Animals

Building

Never underestimate a woman

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #32 Mar/Apr 1998 (In the May/June issue , we published an article by Dorothy Ainsworth titled "Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log...

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Shelves and benches

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Farm and Garden

Plant Once Harvest for Years

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 Year after year we start seeds, till the ground, plant, weed, harvest, then tear it all out at...

Grow Your Own Dishrags

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Pruning Blueberries

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Americana and History

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

The barnyard scramble

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Fried chicken for breakfast

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

How big a gun do you need?

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Science

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

<!-- Subduction zone tsunami --> By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coast—actually, just that...

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Gee-Whiz: Trees

Theories of the universe

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Raising Rabbits

By Linda Gabris Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 If you take pride and pleasure in growing your own organic garden foods and raising your own chemical-free...

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

By Kathleen Sanderson Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 I have had dairy goats for most of the last 20 years or so and have raised almost...

Brooder in a box

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Raising cattle on your own place

Good-bye old friend

Self-Reliance

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 seed-savers trading post of sorts — looking for squash seeds....
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Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

By Maggie Larsen Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 During a binge of spring cleaning, I ventured outside and began to renovate the exterior of my home, a 47-foot trailer in a mobile home park. While waiting...
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