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Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Animal disease traceability

Finding the best dog for the country life

Is that a good pig?

Building

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

By Rick Brentlinger Issue #53 • September/October, 1998 If I could show you how to manufacture a product anywhere in the country and if I offered...

Building Eric’s house

Woodbarrow

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Farm and Garden

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

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,...

Pruning Blueberries

Flowers Brighten the Garden

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Americana and History

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

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

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

How to can chopped garlic

Making hard cider

Modify your oven to bake great bread

Minestrone-hamburger soup

Self-reliance

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

The Trigger Line

Small Town America: Thermopolis, WY — Horses and hot springs

Advice from second-time homesteaders

Energy

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Job site solar power

Solar-powered water purifiers

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Guns and Hunting

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

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Thoughts on ammunition

Sight and sound enhancement

Choose your ammo… police style

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

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...