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Animals

Redworm farming

Raising rabbits for profit

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Building

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #38 • March/April, 1996 I got the dreadful call from my son Eric at 2 p.m. on June 29th, 1995, an hour...

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

This coop is for the birds

Three Raised Bed Designs

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Farm and Garden

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

By Roy Martin Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 A hotbed is a miniature greenhouse that is heated to protect new seedlings from cold. The hotbed differs...

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

The Home Citrus Orchard

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...

Fried chicken for breakfast

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Constitution of the united States of America

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

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

The convenience of a bread bucket

Hamburger soup

Baked barbeque beans

Self-reliance

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Making apple pectin

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Getting logs

Energy

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

Millenium Vehicles

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Hydronic woodstoves

Guns and Hunting

How to shoot a handgun accurately

By Massad Ayoob Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 "I want you to do an article on how to shoot a handgun accurately," Dave Duffy told me....

Building the coyote rifle

Cold weather shooting considerations

Use the right ammunition!

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 As little as 30 years ago the talk wasn't about global warming, it was about an imminent ice...

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

A brief history of health and medicine

Politics and Commentary

Dark Winter — A simulated terrorist attack on three American cities using weaponized smallpox

Exercising with gadgets

“Gun control” for dummies

Avoiding legal traps

Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

By Linda Slate Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 While searching for a large quantity (five pounds or more) feeder for my backyard flock, I kept running...

Brooder in a box

By Sylvia Gist Issue #80 • March/April, 2003 It's spring and the farm store has a tempting variety of baby chicks begging for you to take...

Goat birthing and raising kids

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Switch your family to goat’s milk

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Self-Reliance

No dentist? Oh, no!

Making a great rug from the rag bag

This country job really rocks

Make a quilt out of Levis

Farm and Garden

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply is a primary objective. To that end, some consideration will...

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A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

By Jackie Clay Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 There are many things parents can give their children, other than plastic toys or a few bucks to play video games at the mall. And one of the...

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