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Building

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #38 • March/April, 1996 I got the dreadful call from my son Eric at 2 p.m. on June 29th, 1995, an hour...

Build a poultry killing cone

Install rafters alone the easy way

Three Raised Bed Designs

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

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...

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

Propagating Grapes

Home-Grown Eggs

Americana and History

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

Choose your ammo… police style

Of guns and snakes

Picking a holster

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Science

Gee-Whiz: Time

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2016, Backwoods Home Time. We can’t see, feel, hear, smell, or taste it, but we can measure it and we break it...

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

Theories of the universe

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

By Kathleen Sanderson Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 I have had dairy goats for most of the last 20 years or so and have raised almost...

Keeping homestead animals healthy

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 As a veterinary field technician for more than 20 years, I saw firsthand the frustration and heartbreak when...

Once a day milking

Raising rabbits for profit

Slaughtering and Butchering

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

By Lyle Dykes Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 Years ago when traveling on business, I looked out of the window of my motel one morning in Newport, Oregon, and noticed a little Chinese lady flipping over...
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Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

By Robert L. Williams Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 My family has made a practice of planting Irish potatoes in the fall rather than in the early spring. We tried it both ways for many years...
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