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Animals

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Raising cattle on your own place

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Building

Getting logs

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • March, 2004 Online Exclusive April 2003 Attention: Would-be loggers. There have been changes in policy at the United States Forest Service...

Build a chicken tractor

A house a tornado helped build

Build a deluxe barrel stove

A river rock shower

Farm and Garden

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

By Mark and Lynn Klammer Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 As spring approaches each year, we can hardly wait for the feel of warm earth between...

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Growing Microgreens

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Americana and History

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Be a Viking: Brew wild-crafted mead

Nana V’s holiday corn bread

Hummingbird Cake

Vegetarian and semi-vegetarian: Healthy meals that satisfy the omnivore

Self-reliance

Food security 101

Life-saving snowshoes

Breastfeeding — Babies love it, and for good reason

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Energy

Is steam power in your future?

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Energy class: Part 3

Build Your Own Car Wash

Guns and Hunting

Big boomer guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 For you long time readers, I know what you're thinkin'"Hey, isn't this the guy who within the last...

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Moderate power firearms

Building the coyote rifle

Thoughts on ammunition

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...