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Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Goat birthing and raising kids

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Building

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #138 • November/December, 2012 Keeping fresh water in front of our livestock in the winter has always been somewhat of a problem....

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Build Your Own Hoop House

How safe is your electric fence?

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

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...

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

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...

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

The greatest American who was never President

Remembering what grandma used

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Heart healthy recipes

Brining pickles by the quart or gallon

Apple and berry pies

Feeding large families without breaking the bank

Self-reliance

10 ways to make money on your land

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Winter in the High Desert — Understanding the music

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Energy

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Prepper power! Part 2

Power Up

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Guns and Hunting

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...

Building the coyote rifle

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...