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Farm and Garden

Propagating Grapes

By Sylvia Gist Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 As a kid in western South Dakota, I enjoyed picking wild grapes and using the delightful juice they...

How to become a backyard beekeeper

How to Grow Garlic

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Slug Zapper

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Catfish Biscuits

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

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

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...

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Cold weather shooting considerations

The time for modern; the time for traditional

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Science

Gee-Whiz: Time

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2016, Backwoods Home Time. We can’t see, feel, hear, smell, or taste it, but we can measure it and we break it...

How big is the solar system?

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

The coming ice age

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Politics and Commentary

Animals

A contrary guide to feeding animals

By Beth Greenwood Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 The Purinas, Cargills, and Con-Agras of the world would have you believe that they and they alone have...

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

By Jayn Steidl Thibodeau Issue #36 • November/December, 1995 Have you ever had this happen to you? You've opened the refrigerator door for a cold, refreshing...

Finding the best dog for the country life

Is that a good pig?

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Meat For the Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Meat is often the most expensive portion of our grocery bill, and it is getting more and more expensive every day. I've seen steaks "on sale" for more...
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Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants still need a boost throughout the growing season. We like...
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