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Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Get to know your spiders

Is that a good pig?

Slaughtering and Butchering

Building

Make adobe bricks

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Last winter I got a phone call from an old friend in Arizona. One of his sons...

Build an all-purpose ladder

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Build a poultry killing cone

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Farm and Garden

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

By John Fuchs Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 Leaves are an excellent way to add organic matter to the garden. However, using rawor unprocessedleaves has some...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Companion Planting

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Fried chicken for breakfast

The time-travel ad

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Algerian honeyed lamb kebabs

Homemade pizza

Herbed cheese

Gather rose hips for health

Self-reliance

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Homeschooling through high school

Sewing and using cloth diapers is easier than you think

How to make money from storage building auctions

Energy

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Energy class: Part 3

Guns and Hunting

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

By Massad Ayoob Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Jeff Yago, Backwoods Home's energy writer, recently completed a couple of concealed carry handgun courses. The classes apparently...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

The Appleseed Project

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...