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Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Brooder in a box

Build a poultry killing cone

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Building

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

By Jacqueline Tresl Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 Milling a board with a chainsaw lumber-maker. Figure1: The pieces. Beams, joists and walls were made with a chainsaw mill. Figure...

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Building and stocking your pantry

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Small engine maintenance for women

Farm and Garden

Propagating Plants

By Jackie Clay Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 We all love the idea of having a big, productive garden, full of all the nutritious, tasty foods...

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Mid-season planting

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Americana and History

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

The barnyard scramble

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Comfort foods of Ireland – hearty recipes from Grandma’s old file box

Baked Spaghetti

Apple ham salad

Red flannel hash

Self-reliance

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

New yarn from old sweaters

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

A canoe livery — An honest, clean business

Energy

Add solar power to your truck camper

Waterpower for personal use

Solar Building Design

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Guns and Hunting

Moderate power firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Robert Ruark, the great American writer of the mid-Twentieth Century, was also a big game hunter. One of...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Building the coyote rifle

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...