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Animals

Brooder in a box

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Building

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #152 • March/April, 2015 Here's the finished vanity with our unfinished dresser that will store our extra towels and linens. We've had our log...

Rural Building

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Farm and Garden

Gardening the Year ‘Round

By Alice B. Yeager Website Exclusive • September, 2006 Normally, we gardeners tend to make plans to begin planting our gardens during early spring. We select...

Meat For the Homestead

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The vanishing outhouse

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Veal Goulash

Basic brown stock

Fermented dill pickles

Pumpkin preserves

Self-reliance

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Better wood heating

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Homemade electric power

An $89 backup generator

Waterpower for personal use

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 One of our readers e-mailed John Silveira to tell him that taking a handgun afield after a long...

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

The light at the end of the gun

Affordable firearms

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...