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Animals

Good-bye old friend

Bovine basics for beginners

Raising rabbits for profit

Home Dairying

Building

Install rafters alone the easy way

By Robert L. Williams Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 Anyone who has ever worked on roof framing knows that nailing up rafters is a two-man job...

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Farm and Garden

Gardening for Treasure

By Alice B. Yeager Tomatoes are a boon to mankind in health benefits. It doesn't matter whether they are the large...

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

The Potato Hole

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

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

Remembering what grandma used

Grandpa’s justice

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Blackened Chicken With Guacamole And Black Beans

Caribbean Barbecued Pork Steaks

Lamb Curry with Yogurt

Eggplant salad

Self-reliance

A determined Rose Bley escaped the city

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Dealing with heat stress

This country job really rocks

Energy

Build Your Own Car Wash

Power-up bag

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Guns and Hunting

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...

Picking a holster

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Reload your own brass

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...