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Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Finding the best dog for the country life

Raising Rabbits

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

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),...

Installing a steel roof

Adventures with a portable sawmill

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Farm and Garden

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

By Lisa LaFreniere Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 Bush Beans, or snap beans as they're sometimes referred to, are a growing favorite among many gardeners, and...

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

The time-travel ad

Constitution of the united States of America

Catfish Biscuits

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Southern cooking that doesn’t just whistle Dixie

Cast iron loaf pans from breakfast to dessert

Lamb and Apricot Pilaff

Sourdough simplified

Self-reliance

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Fire resistant property

Energy

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Build a community assistance recharging station

Guns and Hunting

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Use the right ammunition!

Building the coyote rifle

Choose your ammo… police style

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...