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Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Get to know your spiders

Raising your own beef

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

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...

Small engine maintenance for women

Rural Building

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Farm and Garden

Growing Productive Strawberries

By Edna Manning Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 Here on the Canadian prairies, I have found strawberries to be perhaps one of the most delicious, least-demanding...

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Love Those Green Beans

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

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

Catfish Biscuits

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Baked Cod with Summer Squash

Hearty breakfast fillets

Baked Spaghetti

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Self-reliance

Avoiding heat illness

Dollar Store to the Rescue

Just for Kids: Some farinaceous folly

Start a fire in any weather

Energy

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Guns and Hunting

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

How big a gun do you need?

Picking a holster

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Catch your own bait

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 —...