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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 home—There is no...

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

A simple backwoods hay baler

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

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...

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Americana and History

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

The time-travel ad

Remembering what grandma used

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Women and guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 In a time when what used to be called "the women's liberation movement" has achieved many of its...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Canning game meat

Science

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Theories of the universe

Politics and Commentary

Animals

The homestead cat

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson We have had at least one cat in our home ever since I was a young child. So it’s no wonder we...

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

By Darlene Polachic Issue #75 • May/June, 2002 If Henry Soderberg's predictions are right, Dorper sheep could revolutionize the meat sheep industry. A South African breed...

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Once a day milking

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

The Best City Garden

By Anita Evangelista<!-- The best city garden By Anita Evangelista --> Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 City gardens and country gardens are different—not only in the amount of space each can fill, but in the types and quantities of...
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Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

By Jackie Clay Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 Start your garden this year while the snow is still on the ground. I start all of my own plants from seeds. One of my favorite winter pastimes...
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