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Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Build a poultry killing cone

Raising Rabbits

Raising cattle on your own place

Building

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

By Michael Hackleman Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Hydronic, or radiant floor heating is a method of heating a home, shop, or other building with the...

Shelves and benches

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Farm and Garden

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

By Setanta O'Ceillaigh  Issue #160 • July/August, 2016 The cycle never ends: As soon as one...

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Slug Zapper

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Americana and History

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

The time-travel ad

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

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

Food and recipes

How to make kombucha

In search of the perfect cup of coffee

Asparagus Pasta Salad

Tasty uses for garden and wild edibles

Self-reliance

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Tale of a country family

Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass

Energy

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Guns and Hunting

Big boomer guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 For you long time readers, I know what you're thinkin'"Hey, isn't this the guy who within the last...