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Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Goat birthing and raising kids

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Finding the best dog for the country life

Building

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

By Thomas Brewer Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 I am not ambidextrous. My wife, Judith, uses chopsticks with either hand or even both hands at once....

Three Raised Bed Designs

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Building your chicken coop

Stairs — The next level

Farm and Garden

Naughty Peppers

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 If you are prudish, narrow-minded or puritanical, read no further as this article...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Garden Spaces for Small Places

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...

Fly it proudly and properly

Remembering what grandma used

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Pickled fish and rollmops

Butterpeas

Ginger beer

Dragon’s breath chili

Self-reliance

Getting logs

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

Energy

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Build a community assistance recharging station

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

Solar-powered water purifiers

Guns and Hunting

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...

The Appleseed Project

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Tailoring guns to females

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...