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Animals

Is that a good pig?

Raising your own beef for your family

Once a day milking

Brooder in a box

Building

Build a Groundhog Snare

By Allen Easterly Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 In just a few minutes your completed snare is ready to put an end to your groundhog woes....

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Farm and Garden

Fruit Trees

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki...

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Growing Microgreens

Gardening for Treasure

Okra — Not Just for the South

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

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

The vanishing outhouse

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Food and recipes

Family dinner at Backwoods Home Magazine

Sunday night dinner

Dill-onion bread

Sourdough simplified

Self-reliance

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

Raising kids simply

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

Making apple pectin

Energy

Waterpower for personal use

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Hydronic woodstoves

Guns and Hunting

Women and guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 In a time when what used to be called "the women's liberation movement" has achieved many of its...