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Animals

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Raising Rabbits

Beekeeping basics

Animal disease traceability

Building

The house that Dorothy built

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 This isn't the first time we've had an article by and about...

Build a compost tumbler

Build a pallet fence

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Build your own portable forge

Farm and Garden

Propagating Grapes

By Sylvia Gist Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 As a kid in western South Dakota, I enjoyed picking wild grapes and using the delightful juice they...

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Garden Spaces for Small Places

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 —...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Remembering what grandma used

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Piccalilli — A late summer bonus

Fudge macaroon pie

Española eggs

Lamb and Apricot Pilaff

Self-reliance

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

10 tips for selling your homemade product

Paring down for off-grid living

Small camp security

Energy

Solar suitcase

Is steam power in your future?

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

An $89 backup generator

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

Of guns and snakes

The light at the end of the gun

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...