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Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Get to know your spiders

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Building

Build a deluxe barrel stove

By David Lee Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Winter is coming again, pretty much on schedule in spite of global warming, and it will be cold,...

Building a $3,000 Barn

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Building your chicken coop

Farm and Garden

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 When you mention "garden," everybody immediately thinks of sweet corn, green beans, and tomatoes, with a few peppers...

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Growing Strawberries

Naughty Peppers

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Americana and History

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Fly it proudly and properly

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Canning game meat

Aunt Ona’s Mandarin orange cake

Grouse Hunting — The Ultimate Joy of Autumn

Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Visit the great prairies

Bugging out in place

Bartering for bad times

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Energy

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

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

Solar suitcase

Guns and Hunting

The time for modern; the time for traditional

By Massad Ayoob Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Traditional "old skool" guns, or the most modern and efficient ballistic hardware that money can buy? I asked...

Women and guns

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Sight and sound enhancement

Science

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...