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Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Keeping homestead animals healthy

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

Building

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #27 • May/June, 1994 When I graduated from high school in 1960, my father wrote in my autograph book, "When you get...

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Farm and Garden

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

By Christopher and Dolores Lynn Nyerges Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 For some people, home gardening is an expensive pursuit, which seems a bit backward to...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Gardening for Treasure

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

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...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Remembering what grandma used

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Food and recipes

American food — It’s as varied as the melting pot

Tasty uses for garden and wild edibles

Just for Kids: Some pioneer recipes

Making Yogurt

Self-reliance

Choosing a chain saw

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Cast iron

Energy

Build Your Own Car Wash

Water pumping windmills

Energy class: Part 1

Solar power for farm and ranch

Guns and Hunting

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

The light at the end of the gun

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

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 —...