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Animals

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Get to know your spiders

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Build a poultry killing cone

Building

Build a log crib

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 Baby Zane is probably the only newborn in Hollywood sleeping in a log crib made by his grandmother...

Rural Building

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Easy awnings

Building a $3,000 Barn

Farm and Garden

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

By Robert L. Williams Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 My family has made a practice of planting Irish potatoes in the fall rather than in the...

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Propagating Plants

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

The vanishing outhouse

The greatest American who was never President

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

A few favorite recipes and books

Masala jheenga

Sweet pepper salad

Making baby food at home

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Life in the forest

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Tale of a country family

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

Energy

Prepper power! Part 2

Add solar power to your truck camper

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Guns and Hunting

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

By Claire Wolfe Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 My friend Jack pulled the car into a grassy clearing. We donned rubber boots, fetched a metal detector...

Sight and sound enhancement

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Use the right ammunition!

The light at the end of the gun

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...