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Backwoods Home
The Best of the First Two Years Anthology
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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 doen 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 diseasee — 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
- 21 Pastabilities
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