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Building

Five building tricks for super strong framing

By Don Fallick Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 I was standing on the edge of the roof overhang, holding two bundles of asphalt shingles, when my...

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Our Unconventional House

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Farm and Garden

The $1 Garden

By Jonathan Nunan Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 The dollar garden is simple in concept: buy as many seeds as you can for one dollar and...

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Growing and Using Peppers

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Americana and History

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Catch your own bait

By Gary Gresh Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 Expensive lures and pricey tackle shop baits can sometimes make fishing an expensive proposition, raising the cost of...

Air power superiority

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

The light at the end of the gun

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

Gee-Whiz: Insects

The coming ice age

Politics and Commentary

Animals

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

By Annie Duffy Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 "If you're going to make something that you want to last, why not start with good quality material,"...

Home Dairying

By Marcella Shaffer Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 There is a big difference between home dairying to produce food for your family and dairying to sell...

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Raising your own beef

Finding the best dog for the country life

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Growing the Eternal Tomato

By Leonard Trebor Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 It's an old story to longtime gardeners (and a new story to novices): each spring you buy some superb tomato plants, set them out on May 1 (or...
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Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

By Patrice Lewis Issue #141 • May/June, 2013 For much of human history, people have tried to prevent things from rotting. Literally every food preservation method we've come up with in the past few thousand years...
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