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Animals

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

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

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Get to know your spiders

Building

A cabin for one

By Lee Greiman Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Between 1989 and 1990 I built a 20 by 20-foot log house on the Musselshell River in Montana....

Renovating old walls

Building and Using Wattle Fences

Build an all-purpose ladder

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

Farm and Garden

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 My grandson Tommy was probably 50 feet up off the ground when he hollered, "Catch this one,...

Pruning Blueberries

Love Those Green Beans

Build a Keyhole Garden

Growing Productive Strawberries

Americana and History

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

The vanishing outhouse

The summer of ’35

Constitution of the united States of America

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Cooking with seeds — A surefire way to sow good health into your family’s diet

Four Pepper Pheasant

Corned Beef Cakes

Hamentaschen

Self-reliance

Survival infection control

Better wood heating

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

Energy

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

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

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Guns and Hunting

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Tailoring guns to females

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

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...