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Animals

Home Dairying

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Where our farm animals come from

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

Building your chicken coop

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Here's a coop we built from pallets and scrap lumber. The goats lived in one end and the...

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Building and using wattle fences

Stairs — The next level

Farm and Garden

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my...

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Build a Keyhole Garden

Americana and History

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

Fried chicken for breakfast

Grandpa’s justice

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

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Food and recipes

Nameless salad and dressing

Chocolate Babka

Tricia’s chicken chili

Cultured milk — Food of centenarians

Self-reliance

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

Make your own firestarters

Circle of friends

Swedish log candle

Energy

Build a community assistance recharging station

Power your bug-out bag

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

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...

Big boomer guns

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

How big a gun do you need?

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...