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Animals

Animal disease traceability

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Building

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My family has always been big on birthdays and holidaysincluding Thanksgiving, Christmas, Memorial Day, Fourth of July,...

A river rock shower

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Farm and Garden

Meat For the Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Meat is often the most expensive portion of our grocery bill, and it is getting more and more...

Love Those Green Beans

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Three Raised Bed Designs

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Americana and History

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 —...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

The time-travel ad

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Tortellini Soup

Asparagus Pasta Salad

A healthy heart starts in the kitchen

Ham and sausage jambalaya

Self-reliance

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

Cast iron

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Your survival depends on water

Energy

Build Your Own Car Wash

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Water pumping windmills

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Guns and Hunting

How to shoot a handgun accurately

By Massad Ayoob Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 "I want you to do an article on how to shoot a handgun accurately," Dave Duffy told me....

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Picking a holster

Science

A brief history of health and medicine

By John Silveira Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 As little as a century ago, the average life span in the United States was 49 years. Today...

Testing Soil

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

The many benefits of garlic

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

Politics and Commentary

Biological & chemical terrorism

Man vs. the machine

Defending against terroristic mass murder

Climate Change Theory: science or religion?

Animals

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...

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

By Richard Blunt Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 The domestic chicken, or Gallus domesticus as the Romans called it, has lived with humans for centuries. It...

Home Dairying

Goat birthing and raising kids

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Raising cattle on your own place

Self-Reliance

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

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

Cold process goat milk soap

Take care of your knife

Farm and Garden

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

By Lisa LaFreniere Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 Bush Beans, or snap beans as they're sometimes referred to, are a growing favorite among many gardeners, and with good reason. Beans are high in vitamins A, C...

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Growing Potatoes in Straw

By Habeeb Salloum Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 Virtually unknown to people in other parts of the world, the inhabitants in the Northern European countries have for hundreds of years grown potatoes above ground in straw...

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