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Finding the best dog for the country life

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

A house a tornado helped build

Garden Spaces for Small Places

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden. Minnie Aumonier Yes, and if...

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

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

Some unusual jellies for your sweet tooth

Nursing: A perfect backwoods career

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

Making and using a solar cooker

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

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...

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

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

A brief history of health and medicine

Stumbling over your own stupidity

Which is better, a small town or city?

Should we scrap our ‘old’ Constitution?

We don’t need no steenking 2nd Amendment

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

By Margaret Wright Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 When we think of a backwoods dog we generally think of a Pyrenees, German Shepherd, or other breed...

Raising rabbits for profit

By Carrie Peterson Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Whether or not you are fond of rabbit stew, raising rabbits for meat can be a great experience...

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Switch your family to goat’s milk

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn Income

By Rebekah L. Cowell Photos by Amanda Egdorf-Sand Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 Vermicomposting takes composting to another level using Eisenia foetida (commonly known as red wiggler, brandling, or manure worms) to break down organic matter such...

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

By Jackie Clay Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 There are many things parents can give their children, other than plastic toys or a few bucks to play video games at the mall. And one of the...