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Building

Build your own portable forge

By Corcceigh Green Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Looking for a handy summer project while building skills, supplies, and knowledge to put away for a rainy...

Build a Heated Germination Bed

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

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Build a barrel stove

Farm and Garden

Okra — Not Just for the South

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #58 • July/August, 1999 No one is quite sure about how okra seeds came to this country....

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Home-Grown Eggs

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Americana and History

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

The Appleseed Project

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

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...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

A brief history of health and medicine

How big is the solar system?

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

Politics and Commentary

Animals

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...

Switch your family to goat’s milk

By Tanya Kelley Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 If you milk goats, there's no doubt you've heard it—"Eww! Goat's milk! Gross!" To be perfectly honest, goat...

Finding the best dog for the country life

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Is that a good pig?

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

The $1 Garden

By Jonathan Nunan Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 The dollar garden is simple in concept: buy as many seeds as you can for one dollar and harvest as much food as possible from the plants you...
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Growing and Using Peppers

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #164 • March/April, 2017 I’ve been growing peppers for more than 50 years now and can’t imagine a garden without them. There are so many different varieties that no matter where you...
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