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Animals

Where our farm animals come from

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

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Get to know your spiders

Building

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 When I bought 10 dry barren "affordable" acres back in 1981 I got what I paid for: No...

Choosing a chain saw

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Making and using a solar cooker

Farm and Garden

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

By Glenn Willis, Jr. Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Several years ago my sister and her husband had an 8-horse gas-powered rototiller that went belly up....

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Grow some winter squash this year

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Food and recipes

Hungry enough to eat a horse?

Baked chili relleno casserole

The healthy and tantalizing pomegranate

A Native American feast

Self-reliance

Homestead water

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Avoiding heat illness

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

Energy

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Energy class: Part 3

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Hydronic woodstoves

Guns and Hunting

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Sight and sound enhancement

Catch your own bait

Thoughts on ammunition

Science

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...