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Animals

Get to know your spiders

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Home Dairying

Building

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My long time friend Hearold Ruby passed away. Death came as sort of a reprieve. He'd been...

Our Unconventional House

Build a compost tumbler

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Farm and Garden

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown...

How to Grow Garlic

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Caring for your chickens in winter

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

The time-travel ad

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Cajun Shrimp Appetizer

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

Nana V’s holiday corn bread

Honey whole wheat bread

Self-reliance

Homeschooling through high school

13 steps to a life of freedom

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

Foraging for wild berries

Energy

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Guns and Hunting

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

Cold weather shooting considerations

Reload your own brass

How big a gun do you need?

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Science

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

How big is the solar system?

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

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

Politics and Commentary

Gulf War II opened the eyes of Americans to the UN and the media

Self-reliance is a mindset — A woman’s opinion

If you want to survive an emergency, look to yourself, not the Government

The media’s treatment of blacks makes their socialist bias obvious