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Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Build a poultry killing cone

Get to know your spiders

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Building

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

By Robert E. Kramer Issue #42 • November/December, 1996 Materials 1 propane or butane torch or campfire to heat up metal rod. 1 steel rod at...

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Solar Building Design

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Farm and Garden

Slug Zapper

By Joel Winters Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 I live in a small clearing in a big forest. This is on the rainy side of the...

Okra — Not Just for the South

Naughty Peppers

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Build a Composter

Americana and History

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Fly it proudly and properly

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Fermented dill pickles

Pecan twerps

Southern mint julep

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Self-reliance

A canoe livery — An honest, clean business

Keeping tools sharp

Harvest your own firewood

The fire wick fire starter

Energy

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

Of guns and snakes

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Picking a holster

Science

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 —...

The coming ice age

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

A brief history of health and medicine

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

Politics and Commentary

Losing our rights as we watch television

Guns, suicide prevention, and backwoods lifestyles

The destruction of the mass print media will help save freedom in America

Common sense about burglary prevention

Animals

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

By Jackie Clay Issue #111 • May/June, 2008 It goes without saying that preparedness is not for "radicals" or "weirdos" anymore. I picked up a preparedness...

Where our farm animals come from

Issue #105 • May/June, 2007 We don't know how far back the domestication of animals goes. But we...

Animal disease traceability

Brooder in a box

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Self-Reliance

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Farm and Garden

Plant Once Harvest for Years

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 Year after year we start seeds, till the ground, plant, weed, harvest, then tear it all out at the end of the season. It's a lot of work,...

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants still need a boost throughout the growing season. We like...