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Animals

Building

A cabin for one

By Lee Greiman Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Between 1989 and 1990 I built a 20 by 20-foot log house on the Musselshell River in Montana....

Build a Trail

Build a Composter

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Building Eric’s house

Farm and Garden

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

By Jackie Clay Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 There are many things parents can give their children, other than plastic toys or a few bucks to...

Build a Keyhole Garden

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Americana and History

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Use the right ammunition!

By Massad Ayoob Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 The purpose of the gun is to fire ammunition. It follows that the ammunition should be the correct...

Affordable firearms

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

Testing Soil

Gee-Whiz: Insects

The coming ice age

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

Slaughtering and Butchering

By Dynah Geissal Issue #23 • September/October, 1993 Fall is butchering time, a period of joy in the harvest of the year's work and of sadness...

Good-bye old friend

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Get to know your spiders

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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Grow some winter squash this year

By Lisa Nourse I love summertime — I love the green of the trees, the warm weather, and growing my own food. I especially love growing vegetables that will store well and provide that great...
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