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Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

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

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Slaughtering and Butchering

Building

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

By Charles Sanders Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 Drying of food as a means of preservation has been around for a long time. Populations in suitably...

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Shelves and benches

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Farm and Garden

Mid-season planting

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As the saying goes “Life happens…” Maybe events have kept you from getting your garden planted early in the spring. When we...

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Companion Planting

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

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:...

The time-travel ad

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Easy raspberry jam

Persimmon cookies

Chicken Saltimbocca with Escarole

Apple Coffee Cake

Self-reliance

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

A worthwhile journey

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

Energy

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Add solar power to your truck camper

Solar Food Drying

Guns and Hunting

The time for modern; the time for traditional

By Massad Ayoob Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Traditional "old skool" guns, or the most modern and efficient ballistic hardware that money can buy? I asked...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

The Appleseed Project

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

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...