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Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

By Patrice Lewis One of the advantages of living a homesteading lifestyle is participants can kick aside the ever-changing concepts of what constitutes “classy” home...

Rural Building

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

A river rock shower

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Farm and Garden

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply...

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

The $1 Garden

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Americana and History

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

The time-travel ad

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Food and recipes

Elissaburgettes

Tips and tricks for the kitchen

Baked Spaghetti

Sweet Ginger Eggs

Self-reliance

Bugging out in place

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Breastfeeding — A primer

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Energy

Dim bulbs in California

Keep the Ice On

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Guns and Hunting

Use the right ammunition!

By Massad Ayoob Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 The purpose of the gun is to fire ammunition. It follows that the ammunition should be the correct...

The Appleseed Project

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

How big a gun do you need?

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...