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Building

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

By Charles Sanders Issue #94 • July/August, 2005 Perhaps one of the most important innovations in modern plumbing has been the development of polyvinyl chloride (PVC),...

Build your own log home in the woods

Build a barrel stove

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Build your own repeating mouse trap

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...

Victory Gardens

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Caring for your chickens in winter

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Fried chicken for breakfast

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Cold weather shooting considerations

Women and guns

Science

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

By O. E. MacDougal January/February 2016, Backwoods Home Most people don’t know that we’re currently in an ice age and have been for the last 2.58...

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

Testing Soil

Gee-Whiz: Insects

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

By Kathleen Sanderson Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 I have had dairy goats for most of the last 20 years or so and have raised almost...

Raising rabbits for profit

By Carrie Peterson Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Whether or not you are fond of rabbit stew, raising rabbits for meat can be a great experience...

Animal disease traceability

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Redworm farming

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply is a primary objective. To that end, some consideration will...
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Plant Once Harvest for Years

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 Year after year we start seeds, till the ground, plant, weed, harvest, then tear it all out at the end of the season. It's a lot of work,...
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