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Animals

Raising your own beef

Raising Rabbits

Get to know your spiders

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Building

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

By John Silveira Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My engineer father was not fond of wasting time or energy. He was always searching for a better,...

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Making and using a solar cooker

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Farm and Garden

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're...

Gardening for Treasure

Companion Planting

The Home Citrus Orchard

Growing and Using Peppers

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

Fried chicken for breakfast

Constitution of the united States of America

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

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Food and recipes

Chicken Saltimbocca with Escarole

Apple-glazed Barbecued Chicken with Spring Vegetables

Hawaiian poha jam

Old-fashioned hot chocolate

Self-reliance

Life-saving snowshoes

Hypothermia — A real winter danger

The community treasure chest

Teaching the joy of reading

Energy

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Homemade electric power

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Picking a holster

By Massad Ayoob Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 One good thing about being out in the boonies by yourself is that you can carry a gun...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Thoughts on ammunition

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

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

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...