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Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Animal disease traceability

Slaughtering and Butchering

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

Building

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #27 • May/June, 1994 When I graduated from high school in 1960, my father wrote in my autograph book, "When you get...

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Solar Building Design

Building and Using Wattle Fences

Build a log crib

Farm and Garden

Currants and Gooseberries

By Sylvia Gist Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 Currants and gooseberries all belong to the genus Ribes (pronounced "rye-bees"). There are varieties of currants and gooseberries...

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Three Raised Bed Designs

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Food and recipes

Spicy Beef

Growing and Using Cilantro

Fiery Frittata

Sweet pepper salad

Self-reliance

Make a Sure-Fire Live Trap

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Breastfeeding — Babies love it, and for good reason

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

Energy

Generators alone are not enough

Solar power for farm and ranch

Homemade electric power

Energy class: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Moderate power firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Robert Ruark, the great American writer of the mid-Twentieth Century, was also a big game hunter. One of...

Air power superiority

Picking a holster

Catch your own bait

Firearms and cold weather considerations

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...