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Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Home Dairying

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Brooder in a box

Building

Build a pallet fence

By Clay Sawyer Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 If you have access to various sizes of free pallets, consider this idea for your next fence. Now...

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Build a compost tumbler

Farm and Garden

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

By Nancy Wolcott Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 You are sitting there in your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the day...

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Growing Microgreens

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Americana and History

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

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

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

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Black & Blue Mango Pie

Easy-to-make farmer’s cheese

Honey whole wheat bread

Española eggs

Self-reliance

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

The cholesterol in your stovepipe can be fatal

Getting logs

Caring for wounds in the field

Energy

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Energy class: Part 3

Waterpower for personal use

Guns and Hunting

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Affordable firearms

Women and guns

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...