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Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Build a portable woodstove for $30

By David Scott Matthews Issue #78 • November/December, 2002 I had a problem. Other men love football, baseball, basketball, or golf. I love to hunt. And...

Getting logs

Build a barrel stove

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

Install rafters alone the easy way

Farm and Garden

The Home Citrus Orchard

By Anita Evangelista Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 It may seem like an impossible dream if you live outside of southern Florida, California, or Texas, but...

Victory Gardens

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Currants and Gooseberries

Americana and History

The time-travel ad

By John Silveira Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 It's become a minor Internet phenomenon. The ad reads: It's also been read by Jay Leno on his late...

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Catfish Biscuits

Fried chicken for breakfast

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Wheat

Making delicious, unthinkable wines

Crispy onion rings

Root vegetable casserole

Self-reliance

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

Garden injuries Part 2

Paring down for off-grid living

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Guns and Hunting

Cold weather shooting considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 Winter will soon be upon us. Cold weather makes a lot of things more difficult. Running. Walking. Navigating...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Firearms — Tools of rural living

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...