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Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

Build a graceful footbridge

By Harrison Stone Issue #77 • September/October, 2002 Tap your heels together three times and repeat after me, "There is no place like homeThere is no...

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Build your own portable forge

Farm and Garden

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Propagating Grapes

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

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...

The greatest American who was never President

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

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Canning Steelhead and Tuna

Making delicious, unthinkable wines

Mairead’s Fabulous Flan

Bread — The staff of life

Self-reliance

Your survival depends on water

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Teach your kids math with the banking game

Caveman walking stick

Energy

Hydronic woodstoves

Solar power for farm and ranch

How to select the right backup generator

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

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...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Affordable firearms

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...