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Animals

Raising rabbits for profit

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Get to know your spiders

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Building

Build an attached solar greenhouse

By David Lee Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 We planned it to be permanent, well built, and able to withstand the extremes of temperature, humidity, and...

Making and using a solar cooker

Renovating old walls

Building and Using Wattle Fences

A simple backwoods hay baler

Farm and Garden

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

By Charles Sanders Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 Tomatoes are one of the most favored of all garden crops. They originated in South America, but in...

Currants and Gooseberries

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Tracing a bean

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Americana and History

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

Fried chicken for breakfast

Catfish Biscuits

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Venison — From the Field to the Fork

A healthy heart starts in the kitchen

Gourmet nutrition with beans and rice

Vegetarian pies

Self-reliance

Avoiding heat illness

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

Take care of your knife

Survival storeroom

Energy

Dim bulbs in California

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Of guns and snakes

Catch your own bait

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...