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Building

Rural Building

By Martin Harris Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 Q. We have just purchased 15 acres, and our question is how to install our septic system, how...

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Farm and Garden

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 Everyone likes a good success story, and if I were called upon to name the most successful...

Testing Soil

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Growing and Using Peppers

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Americana and History

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

The summer of ’35

The greatest American who was never President

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

How to shoot a handgun accurately

By Massad Ayoob Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 "I want you to do an article on how to shoot a handgun accurately," Dave Duffy told me....

The Appleseed Project

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Tailoring guns to females

Science

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

By John Silveira Issue #118 • July/August, 2009 Do we have anything to worry about the reemergence of Swine Flu — Novel Influenza A (H1N1) —...

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

Gee-Whiz: Time

Science and truth. Are they related?

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

By Linda Slate Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 While searching for a large quantity (five pounds or more) feeder for my backyard flock, I kept running...

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

By Anita Evangelista Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 Multimillionaire J. Paul Getty was once asked the secret of becoming rich. He's reported to have said, "I...

Is that a good pig?

Get to know your spiders

Raising rabbits for profit

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

By Nancy Wolcott Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 You are sitting there in your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the day when you can escape to the country and become a...
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Grow some winter squash this year

By Lisa Nourse I love summertime — I love the green of the trees, the warm weather, and growing my own food. I especially love growing vegetables that will store well and provide that great...
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