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Animals

Get to know your spiders

Finding the best dog for the country life

Beekeeping basics

Brooder in a box

Building

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

By Melissa Souza  Issue #159 • May/June, 2016 My family is committed to becoming as self-sufficient...

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Solar Building Design

Farm and Garden

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 Everyone likes a good success story, and if I were called upon to name the most successful...

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

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...

Fly it proudly and properly

Fried chicken for breakfast

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Homemade baking extracts

How to can chopped garlic

These chocolate treats make great gifts and delicious holiday desserts

Black Bean and Avocado Dip

Self-reliance

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Bath herbs

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Energy

Dim bulbs in California

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Making and using a solar cooker

Guns and Hunting

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

By Massad Ayoob Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Jeff Yago, Backwoods Home's energy writer, recently completed a couple of concealed carry handgun courses. The classes apparently...

Canning game meat

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

How to shoot a handgun accurately

How big a gun do you need?

Science

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...