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Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Get to know your spiders

Building

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

By Dynah Geissal Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 When we moved to our land in the summer of 1994, we were fortunate that open grazing exists...

How to maintain a dirt road

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Build a lean-to greenhouse

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Farm and Garden

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants...

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Growing Microgreens

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Grandpa’s justice

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Catfish Biscuits

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Make your own nut butters

Fireplace cooking cures the winter blues

Baby bok choy with tofu

Stovetop Teriyaki

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Knock knock vinegar

Bartering for bad times

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Dehydrating eggs at home

Energy

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Build your own battery charging station

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Guns and Hunting

Thoughts on ammunition

By Massad Ayoob Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Ammunition is to firearms as gasoline is to automobiles. However, with guns and ammo, the fit isn't quite...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

The time for modern; the time for traditional

The light at the end of the gun

Tailoring guns to females

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...