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Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Bovine basics for beginners

Is that a good pig?

Building

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

By James F. Deaton Website Exclusive • January, 2006 The need to get firewood from a draw below my house to my woodshed started me on...

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Build a barrel stove

Build a deluxe barrel stove

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Farm and Garden

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our...

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Companion Planting

Okra — Not Just for the South

Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

Catfish Biscuits

The barnyard scramble

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Beans for Sarah

Sweet potato pudding

Tastes Just Like Chicken

Potato Bread

Self-reliance

Survival infection control

A worthwhile journey

Preparing for winter

Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell

Energy

Solar power trailer Part 2

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Solar Food Drying

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Guns and Hunting

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

By Massad Ayoob Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 One reader writes to ask if military surplus rifles are still a good idea for hunting, recreational shooting,...

Tailoring guns to females

Building the coyote rifle

Just because

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

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...