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Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Once a day milking

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Building

Build a Groundhog Snare

By Allen Easterly Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 In just a few minutes your completed snare is ready to put an end to your groundhog woes....

Make adobe bricks

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Build a stone wall

Woodbarrow

Farm and Garden

Jackie’s Garden Primer

By Jackie Clay Issue #117 • May/June, 2009 The birds are singing. The sunshine makes the day feel soft and warm. The soil is mellow and...

Fruit Trees

Mid-season planting

Build a Keyhole Garden

Slug Zapper

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

Remembering what grandma used

Fried chicken for breakfast

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Lenie in the kitchen: Pumpkin sweet bread with walnuts

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Hamentaschen

Vidalia Onion Pie

Self-reliance

Homemade pest traps

The art of living in small spaces

Avoiding heat illness

Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it

Energy

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Solar power for farm and ranch

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

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Guns and Hunting

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

By Massad Ayoob Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 One reader writes to ask if military surplus rifles are still a good idea for hunting, recreational shooting,...

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Use the right ammunition!

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...