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Animals

Building

Build a ski sled

By Kai Moessle Issue #138 • November/December, 2012 Since my property is almost half a mile away from the nearest road and I can't keep the...

Building and using wattle fences

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Adventures with a portable sawmill

A river rock shower

Farm and Garden

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

By Tom Kovach Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 Winter is a good time to plan your spring tree plantings, deciding what and where you want to...

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Tracing a bean

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

Fried chicken for breakfast

The summer of ’35

Remembering what grandma used

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

The light at the end of the gun

Tailoring guns to females

Air power superiority

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

By O. E. MacDougal January/February 2016, Backwoods Home Most people don’t know that we’re currently in an ice age and have been for the last 2.58...

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

By Dynah Geissal Issue #23 • September/October, 1993 Fall is butchering time, a period of joy in the harvest of the year's work and of sadness...

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

By Darlene Polachic Issue #75 • May/June, 2002 If Henry Soderberg's predictions are right, Dorper sheep could revolutionize the meat sheep industry. A South African breed...

Raising your own beef

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Home Dairying

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done by using a water-based nutrient solution to deliver the necessary...
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The Potato Hole

By Sylvia Gist Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Carrots go in sand in the green pail and potatoes can be sorted by type into plastic mesh bags. We had talked of putting in a regular root cellar,...
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