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Building

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

By Michael Hackleman Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Hydronic, or radiant floor heating is a method of heating a home, shop, or other building with the...

Build a pizza oven

Building a $3,000 Barn

Make adobe bricks

Woodbarrow

Farm and Garden

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

By Patrice Lewis Issue #141 • May/June, 2013 For much of human history, people have tried to prevent things from rotting. Literally every food preservation method...

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Americana and History

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...

Big boomer guns

The Appleseed Project

Air power superiority

Picking a holster

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...

Zombie Apocalypse

Theories of the universe

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

Politics and Commentary

Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

...while leaving the carcass and feathers intact! By Dr. Roger W. Grim, D.C. Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Figure 1. With a trash bag properly fitted around...

Switch your family to goat’s milk

By Tanya Kelley Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 If you milk goats, there's no doubt you've heard it—"Eww! Goat's milk! Gross!" To be perfectly honest, goat...

Where our farm animals come from

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Self-Reliance

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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Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone <!-- >!>!>!> Make content-2-col-left = 70% if activating this column --> Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my garlic business and till up three 600-square-foot beds for planting...
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