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Animals

Building

Adventures with a portable sawmill

By Pat Barden Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 I was raised in the suburbs and spent most of my adult life living in apartments and houses...

Solar Building Design

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

Build a log crib

Farm and Garden

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

By Tom Kovach Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 Winter is a good time to plan your spring tree plantings, deciding what and where you want to...

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

Propagating Plants

Growing and Using Peppers

How to Grow Garlic

Americana and History

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Science

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

A brief history of health and medicine

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet....

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

...while leaving the carcass and feathers intact! By Dr. Roger W. Grim, D.C. Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Figure 1. With a trash bag properly fitted around...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Brooder in a box

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

Where our farm animals come from

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Growing Strawberries

By Patrice Lewis Issue #162 • November/December, 2016   As you read this, the wind may well be howling and the snow piling deep, and you're likely curled up next to the woodstove with a mug of...
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Saving Seeds

By Jackie Clay Issue #129 • May/June, 2011 I go through dozens of garden seed catalogs in preparation for each year's new (and better!) garden. I have a lot of "old reliable" varieties that I grow...
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