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Animals

Raising rabbits for profit

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

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

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

By Michael Hackleman Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Hydronic, or radiant floor heating is a method of heating a home, shop, or other building with the...

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

How to Install a Steel Roof

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Farm and Garden

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

By Patrice Lewis Issue #141 • May/June, 2013 For much of human history, people have tried to prevent things from rotting. Literally every food preservation method...

Three Raised Bed Designs

Tracing a bean

Currants and Gooseberries

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Making delicious, unthinkable wines

Glazed spiced mocha brownies

Irish coffee

Galumbki

Self-reliance

Learning to love the high desert

How to organize an outdoor canning party

Woodstove cooking

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Energy

Solar-powered water purifiers

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Dim bulbs in California

Solar hot water systems

Guns and Hunting

Picking a holster

By Massad Ayoob Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 One good thing about being out in the boonies by yourself is that you can carry a gun...

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Just because

Building the coyote rifle

Air power superiority

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...