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Animals

Building

Build a log crib

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 Baby Zane is probably the only newborn in Hollywood sleeping in a log crib made by his grandmother...

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

Build a chicken tractor

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

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....

Fruit Trees

Tea for the garden

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Victory Gardens

Americana and History

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

Choose your ammo… police style

Thoughts on ammunition

The light at the end of the gun

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...

Science and truth. Are they related?

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

A brief history of health and medicine

Gee-Whiz: Trees

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

Bottle-raise a calf

By Jackie Clay Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 If you think milk and beef are expensive in the grocery store, then you should think about raising...

Build a poultry killing cone

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

Get to know your spiders

Raising rabbits for profit

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done by using a water-based nutrient solution to deliver the necessary...
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Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

By Joy Lamb Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 A huge brown beast stared at me as I drove through our apple orchard toward the house. I parked, walked quickly into the house, and said to my...
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