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Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Get to know your spiders

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Building

Build Your Own Car Wash

By Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 Completed car wash in operation If someone told me a year ago that I would have a...

Build a wood crib with free materials

Choosing a chain saw

A river rock shower

Gabion walls for form and function

Farm and Garden

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

How to Grow Great Carrots

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Growing Strawberries

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

Grandpa’s justice

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Crabapple jelly

Make your own nut butters

Spicy Beef and Peppers

Jo’s Kentucky-fried cole slaw

Self-reliance

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

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

Raising kids simply

Energy

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Solar power for farm and ranch

Homemade electric power

Guns and Hunting

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

By Mike Blank Issue #89 • September/October, 2004 What follows is my personal quest to acquire an M1 Garand through the Civilian Marks-manship Program (CMP). We've...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Canning game meat

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Women and guns

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...