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Animals

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Where our farm animals come from

Building

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • May, 2010 Grandma Clara used to delight in telling us the story of our Dad's first complete sentence at age...

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Build a pizza oven

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Farm and Garden

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

By Charles Sanders Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 There are mountains of old tires out there. Americans keep on rolling and tires keep on wearing out....

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

The Best City Garden

Build Your Own Hoop House

Meat For the Homestead

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

The barnyard scramble

Grandpa’s justice

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Blueberry tofu frappe

Apple and Potato Soup

Tabbouleh

Poor man’s shrimp cocktail on perch

Self-reliance

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

10 country do’s and don’ts

Fire resistant property

Storing dry foods

Energy

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Prepper power! Part 1

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Catch your own bait

Affordable firearms

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Science

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 —...