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Raising cattle on your own place

A contrary guide to feeding animals

How to maintain a dirt road

By Marjorie Burris Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 It is our job to maintain two and one half miles of dirt road if we want to...

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done...

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

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 —...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Betty’s Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

Cannellini Bean And Mushroom Casserole

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...

The light at the end of the gun

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Reflecting on a life in the woods, and looking ahead

Raising your own beef

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #175 • January/February/March, 2019 Every time I sit down to enjoy a wonderful beef roast or perfectly grilled steak, I am so...

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

By Richard Blunt Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 The domestic chicken, or Gallus domesticus as the Romans called it, has lived with humans for centuries. It...

Raising your own beef for your family

Goat birthing and raising kids

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Homeschooling through high school

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown spinach, there is a world of difference between its taste...

Gardening Tips and Tricks

By Charles Sanders Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 Gardeners are an ingenious lot. Trial and error, time, study, observation, and experience all help us to come up with ideas that result in better gardens, more produce,...