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Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

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

Brooder in a box

Building

Getting logs

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • March, 2004 Online Exclusive April 2003 Attention: Would-be loggers. There have been changes in policy at the United States Forest Service...

Build Your Own Hoop House

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Farm and Garden

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

By Mark and Lynn Klammer Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 As spring approaches each year, we can hardly wait for the feel of warm earth between...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Gardening for Treasure

Testing Soil

Build a Composter

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...

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

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

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Cauliflower-Ham Chowder

Chicken and dumpling stew

Baking Bread

Masala jheenga

Self-reliance

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

How to maintain your chimney

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Just for Kids: Life in the forest

Energy

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Energy class: Part 3

Solar-powered refrigerators

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Guns and Hunting

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

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Women and guns

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...