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Complete List of Articles

Building a home

Building a roof can be a big challenge
Making a sunny home in the California wilderness
In pursuit of independence
The James T. Hiteman Old Tool Revitalizing Process
Build your own ferro-cement water storage tank
Recycled materials add flavor to an Oregon home
"What if" planning makes a house expansion easier
How to construct a soundproof generator shed
Here's a neat way to expand your child's bedroom and play space
Spring maintenance hints
You can move a piano, even a house if you understand "mechanics"
Build a log house from scratch
Sawmills: a firm foundation to homesteading
Semi-underground, solar house has ideas worth crowing about
Sound construction advice for the most important part of earth-set dwelling
How to design and build a water system for your backwoods home
How one man made the American dream come true
Building for indoor air quality
Make lifting easy with a rope and the principles of "mechanics"
Save a bundle of money by building your home yourself
Make your own rooter rotor
A house-heating solar greenhouse

Americana

Bicentennial of the "Bill of Rights" — would we pay the price again?

Alternative energy

How to wire your home for solar electricity
Water pump blues? Consider the trusty ram pump
The case for a generator-based electrical system
Editorial — "A war that shouldn't be"
Using salvaged materials to build a thermosiphon solar hot water system
Tips that will help if you are returning to wood heat
How to keep the China Diesel purring like a kitten
Aluminum-air battery gives electrics 750-mile range
Solar water pumping — a sensible, reliable alternative
Conservation and a wise choice of home appliances is the key to making photovoltaic power work for you
How to build a safe, effective wood-fired hot water heater
Photovoltaics — Is the big price breakthrough just aroundt he corner?
Water systems for homesteads with alternative electrical systems
Is methane on your homestead practical?
A tour of some alternative energy homes in the Pacific Northwest
A solution to the problem of transmitting solar electricity long distance
The sunless, windless, waterless alternative energy system

Historical

Today the world runs on oil; yesterday empires rose and fell over salt
Pioneer women on the trail west

Electric vehicles

Electric cars of the 1990's — small companies lead the way, but the "big three" have entered the race

Self sufficiency/Money

How to make soap — from fat to finish
Make twenty dollars per hour by baling and selling straw
A baker's dozen of uncommon uses for common substances
Getting into desk-top publishing without blowing your budget
A good plan to help you achieve financial independence
Let common sense, your taste buds guide you to storing food at home
Physician Assistant — a country career with opportunities galore
Getting started in the firewood business
Sources of firewood
Feed seven on under $300 a month

Garden/Farm

Tips on controlling your garden pests naturally
Just for kids — Plant a spring garden
Oklahomans help pave the way for small-scale catfish farmers
Small-scale crayfish farming is a profitable business
Canning stews and veggie soup
Goats are great — I kid you not
Spring planting a lot to do now, plenty of options to consider
Whip grafting — the key to producing fruit variety
The portable pig machine
The basics of backyard beekeeping
It's not to late to start your garden
The magic of mulch
The instant greenhouse
Co-planting in the vegetable garden
Everything you ever wanted to know about chickens! Part I
Great Pyrenees — a one-of-a-kind guardian of stock
Growing trees can pay off with some big dividends but it takes careful planning, planting and hard work
Fall in the herb garden
How to raise rabbits rabbits rabbits rabbits rabbits rabbits
Self-seeding herbs add random fragrance, beauty to your vegetable garden
For battling ants or growing earthworms, try coffee grounds
Salt blueberries to preserve them
Everything you ever wanted to know about chickens (Part II)

Country living/Cooking/Family

How to can peaches and tomatoes
Backwoods Home Recipes
Pro and anti-gunners square off with songs
Canning blueberries
Backwoods Home Recipes
The "New" Vegetarian cooking
Just for Kids — granola and the moon
How we keep humming along on the homestead
A short course in cutting hair
Backwoods Home Recipes
Autumn delights
Drying meat
Poison hemlock! — Don't get this deadly plant confused with others
Just for Kids — Apples, apples everywhere
Taxes — a good reason for you to start your own small business
Ski fever — an alternative to cabin fever
Backwoods Home Recipes
Carrot recipe tips
There's a shark in the refrigerator
Just for kids - Candle making
Just for parents - Homemade teaching toys
Backwoods Home Recipes
Elegant vegetarian cuisine
Just for kids — ladybugs and spiders
Home-made bread...it's good even when it turns out bad
Kids "Funny Drawing" Contest
Just for kids — a musical houseguest
Homeschooling children — a former teacher's view of how well it works
A practical survival strategy in the event of catastrophe
Protecting your home against the Wildfire Dragon
Tips on dealing with mosquitoes
As a versatile country tool the shotgun is hard to beat
Finding Mr. (or Mrs) Right when you're in the backwoods
Rodents and raptors — a natural balance
The old time spring house

Country employment

Nursing — the number 1 country career for both men and women
A crash course in small business record keeping

Health/Environment

Some healthy advice about canning and botulism
Some poisonous advice about scorpions, snakes and spiders
Identifying and dealing with poison oak and ivy
A botulism update for babies
How cities affect the weather
The summer it snowed
Remove toxics from your home by switching to "natural" household cleaners
Some tips on first aid readiness for remote areas
How to deal with hypothermia
The Guayule Plant — an oil-saving opportunity begging for an American entrepreneur
In spite of DEET and Permethrin, the mosquito still reigns supreme
Injured and sick wildlife get a lease on life
Make your own safe baking powder

Old days

A walk down Memory Lane through the amazing World Series of the past
Old tin cans tell the real story of how pioneers tamed the West
How to make your own stereo cards

Miscellaneous

A Little Knowledge and Sweat Can Build a Home for Under $10,000
Wood as a Heating Fuel — Hardwoods are the best but pine has its place
Solar Cells Grow in Popularity as Home Electricity Source
Tony Lamb, Inventor of the Solar Cell
The Facts of Life
The Old Days — A telephone for Vailsburg
A Woman Alone making a Life in the Backwoods
The Beaver Pond
Backwoods Home Recipes
"The Perfect Defense" — a short story
The Dos and Don'ts of Buying Backwoods Property
Most Independent People of 1989
From Domes to Yurts, Home Ideas Get Their Inspiration from the Past
Solar Power — Is It the Answer for Your Electric Needs?
Solar Cells, Inverters and Your Personal Computer
Steal a Porch from the Forest
Sheetery stichery — Better than Paint or Wallpaper
How to Tell if Your Water Supply Is Safe to Drink
Making Water Fit to Drink
Making a Living Independently by Teaching Adults to Read
Just for Kids — Finger Weaving
She built Her Own Cross-country Ski Lodge
Vernon Hopkins — Wood Splitter, Trapper, Dowser
Backwoods Home Recipes
Fiber — the Fact and the Fiction
My dad was never home for Santa Claus
Tepee to Cabin to Dream House
Spice Up Your Life With Lemon Grass
Recycling and Capitalism Shake Hands
The Virtues of Vitamins — A Megadose Warning!
A Quake Preparation Primer
Great Quakes of the Past
Backwoods computers — Vehicles to independence
A third world answer to a backwoods power problem
From the foundation up — House building is forgiving
North Dakota self-reliance is Ted Neumiller's heritage
Making an independent living by caring for children
Framing house walls is a cinch
Examining the oat bran studies
A first time horse buyer's guide
Find wanter, wire or cable by dowsing with wire coat hangers
Kids like the backwoods too!
Just for Kids — Making a can telephone, Growing sprouts
As the "Green Revolution" loses credibility, organic gardening makes a comeback
A Greenhouse offers advantages for the organic gardener
Well water update
Backwoods Home recipes
Canning meat
Is it safe to eat the Fish/Shellfish pulled from out coastal waters?
Praise fora once perfect food
Ticks and Lyme disease — A crippling combination that is difficult to detect
"Zugwang" — a short story
Commentary — Independence
Beyond Iraq

Editorial

Flag burning, Sobriety checks
Politically Correct
Rush Limbaugh — champion of "the Right"
"Just Once in a Lifetime, Group of 100"

Just for kids

Kid's Funny Drawing Contest
Logic puzzles

Profile

Twenty year update: Carla Emery and her old fashioned recipe book

Recipes

Backwoods Home recipes
Country Breakfasts
Backwoods Home Recipes
Fountain treats from the fifties>
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