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Animals

Building

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

By Charles Sanders Issue #94 • July/August, 2005 Perhaps one of the most important innovations in modern plumbing has been the development of polyvinyl chloride (PVC),...

Build a lean-to greenhouse

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

Build a chicken tractor

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Farm and Garden

Build Your Own Hoop House

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 I’ve had my own garden for more than half a century, and I have learned a few things...

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

The summer of ’35

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Grandpa’s justice

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

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

Canning game meat

Air power superiority

The Appleseed Project

Science

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

By O. E. MacDougal January/February 2016, Backwoods Home Most people don’t know that we’re currently in an ice age and have been for the last 2.58...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

The coming ice age

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Good-bye old friend

By Lucy Shober Issue #27 • May/June, 1994 Big Poney died today. He was 34 years old and had been going down pretty rapidly over this...

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

By Charles Sanders Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 A 450-pound hog will provide a lot of delicious meat. Hogs are raised throughout our neighboring Amish community for...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Slaughtering and Butchering

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

By Tom Kovach Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 Winter is a good time to plan your spring tree plantings, deciding what and where you want to plant. When spring arrives you'll be ready. Spring is the best...
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Mid-season planting

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As the saying goes “Life happens…” Maybe events have kept you from getting your garden planted early in the spring. When we moved to New Mexico, it was in late June and...
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