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Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

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...

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

The Potato Hole

By Sylvia Gist Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Carrots go in sand in the green pail and potatoes can be sorted by type into plastic mesh...

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Turn your passion into a business

In the classroom and at home, this system will help you grow self-reliant kids

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Is steam power in your future?

Build your own battery charging station

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...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

Is it time for an education revolution?

Here are some answers to often-asked questions of anti-gunners

Which wars work best? The ones we fight or the ones we avoid?

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...

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

By Jayn Steidl Thibodeau Issue #36 • November/December, 1995 Have you ever had this happen to you? You've opened the refrigerator door for a cold, refreshing...

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Learning to love the high desert

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

A young couple moves to the country

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 While growing up in Detroit, we had no nut trees in our yard (though we did have seedlings before I left home). That didn't stop my parents, though....

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my garlic business and till up three 600-square-foot beds for planting...