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Animals

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

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

Brooder in a box

Building

A salvaged oak floor for $5

By Robert L. Williams Issue #59 • September/October, 1999 Several months ago we decided we did not want to install a traditional bedroom floor of plywood...

Easy awnings

The house that Dorothy built

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Farm and Garden

Growing Potatoes in Straw

By Habeeb Salloum Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 Virtually unknown to people in other parts of the world, the inhabitants in the Northern European countries have...

Growing Strawberries

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Gardening for Treasure

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Americana and History

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

The barnyard scramble

The summer of ’35

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

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Mairead’s Fabulous Flan

Duck with Mushrooms

Raspberry Pears with Chocolate Sauce

Coffee Kringle

Self-reliance

Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell

Grandma will love this personal ‘Helping Hands’ wall hanging

Cleaning a well

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Energy

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Emergency solar power for $950

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Solar-powered chicken coop

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Moderate power firearms

Canning game meat

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...