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Animals

Raising Rabbits

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

Raising rabbits for profit

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

By Dana Martin Batory Issue #84 • November/December, 2003 Sometimes it seems two hands are not enough—three would be nice, four even better. This economical, easy...

How to maintain a dirt road

Build a chicken house in a day

Build a Composter

New invention— The Fencerunner

Farm and Garden

Flowers Brighten the Garden

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Website Exclusive • March, 2006 Along with raising food plants, I like to tuck in a few flowers...

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

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Home-Grown Eggs

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

Remembering what grandma used

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

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

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

Food and recipes

Bologna sandwiches and roasted rabbit

Ham and sausage jambalaya

Apple-glazed Barbecued Chicken with Spring Vegetables

Feeding large families without breaking the bank

Self-reliance

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Power Up

Energy

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Generators alone are not enough

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

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...

Affordable firearms

Just because

Thoughts on ammunition

Catch your own bait

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...