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Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Building

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

By David Lee Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 There is an old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." Curse or not, times are interesting....

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

New invention— The Fencerunner

Build a deluxe barrel stove

Farm and Garden

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

By Lyle Dykes Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 Years ago when traveling on business, I looked out of the window of my motel one morning in...

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Propagating Grapes

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Americana and History

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

The vanishing outhouse

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The barnyard scramble

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Cheesy fish chowder

Potato Latkes

Here are some tasty ways to use those end-of-season green tomatoes

Fried tuna patties

Self-reliance

Shopping to beat inflation

Get out of debt, stay out of debt

Caveman walking stick

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

Energy

Water pumping windmills

Homemade electric power

Solar power trailer Part 2

Prepper power! Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Moderate power firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Robert Ruark, the great American writer of the mid-Twentieth Century, was also a big game hunter. One of...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Cold weather shooting considerations

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...