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Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

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

Home Dairying

Good-bye old friend

Building

Build a barrel stove

By Nick Weston Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 This stove kept me warm and provided an excellent cooking surface for more than six months while I...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Solar Building Design

Farm and Garden

Jackie’s Garden Primer

By Jackie Clay Issue #117 • May/June, 2009 The birds are singing. The sunshine makes the day feel soft and warm. The soil is mellow and...

How to Grow Potatoes

The Homestead Greenhouse

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

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...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

The barnyard scramble

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Goat milk recipes

Gritted bread

Fried tuna patties

Traditional trail foods — Transportable calories

Self-reliance

Medicinal uses of garlic

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

No dentist? Oh, no!

Energy

Solar hot water systems

Solar Food Drying

Solar-powered chicken coop

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Guns and Hunting

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

By Linda Gabris Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 Bear was a popular meat in our house when I was growing up in the rural woods. Black...

The light at the end of the gun

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

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...