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Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Build a poultry killing cone

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Animal disease traceability

Building

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

By Charles Sanders Issue #94 • July/August, 2005 Perhaps one of the most important innovations in modern plumbing has been the development of polyvinyl chloride (PVC),...

How safe is your electric fence?

Build a wood crib with free materials

Build a poultry killing cone

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Farm and Garden

Currants and Gooseberries

By Sylvia Gist Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 Currants and gooseberries all belong to the genus Ribes (pronounced "rye-bees"). There are varieties of currants and gooseberries...

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

The barnyard scramble

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

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

Food and recipes

You can become a hardcore forager

Pears in Caramel Syrup

Tabbouleh

Can your own tomato products

Self-reliance

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

City boy, country boy

Essential oils

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

Energy

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Water pumping windmills

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Hydronic woodstoves

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 In Part I, we began a series of refreshers on safety and proper handling of firearms. This time,...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Big boomer guns

Picking a holster

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...