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Animals

Once a day milking

Raising Rabbits

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Building

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #152 • March/April, 2015 Here's the finished vanity with our unfinished dresser that will store our extra towels and linens. We've had our log...

Gabion walls for form and function

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

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Farm and Garden

Gardening the Year ‘Round

By Alice B. Yeager Website Exclusive • September, 2006 Normally, we gardeners tend to make plans to begin planting our gardens during early spring. We select...

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

How to Grow Potatoes

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Constitution of the united States of America

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

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

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

Food and recipes

In search of the perfect cup of coffee

Chicken and dumpling stew

Canning meat plus how to use your canned meat

Jerusalem artichokes with brown rice

Self-reliance

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Learning to love the high desert

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

Energy

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Homemade electric power

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Moderate power firearms

Air power superiority

Catch your own bait

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...