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Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Beekeeping basics

Bottle-raise a calf

Building

Build Your Own Hoop House

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 I’ve had my own garden for more than half a century, and I have learned a few things...

Small engine maintenance for women

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Build a log crib

Build a barrel stove

Farm and Garden

Build a Keyhole Garden

By Katelynn Bond Issue #152 • March/April, 2015 One of the hazards of living on the side of a mountain in northern New Mexico is that...

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Americana and History

Fried chicken for breakfast

By Danny Fulks Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, is one of those rare writers capable of painting a vivid picture of life back...

Grandpa’s justice

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Constitution of the united States of America

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Corn cob jelly

Cheddar Breakfast Pizza

Quince preserves

Challah

Self-reliance

How to maintain your chimney

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Keeping tools sharp

Sewing and using cloth diapers is easier than you think

Energy

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Portable solar power

Homemade electric power

Guns and Hunting

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 Everything's getting more expensive. Food. Gasoline. Guns and ammunition. Not everyone who appreciates the rural lifestyle was "born...

The light at the end of the gun

Canning game meat

Affordable firearms

Cold weather shooting considerations

Science

Gee-Whiz: Time

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2016, Backwoods Home Time. We can’t see, feel, hear, smell, or taste it, but we can measure it and we break it...

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Testing Soil

Politics and Commentary

Dark Winter — A simulated terrorist attack on three American cities using weaponized smallpox

Every group needs a black sheep

Putting it all on the Amtrak line for Self-Reliance magazine

The unheralded roots of America’s freedoms