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Animals

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Home Dairying

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

By Robert Van Putten Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 For as long as I can remember, I’ve always wanted a rustic log cabin deep in the...

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Build your own portable forge

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Farm and Garden

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

By Patrice Lewis Issue #141 • May/June, 2013 For much of human history, people have tried to prevent things from rotting. Literally every food preservation method...

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

The Home Citrus Orchard

Propagating Plants

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Indian Pudding

Old-fashioned hot dog pepper relish

Sweet & Sour Cabbage

Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter

Self-reliance

Brood X

Essential oils

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

How we found our remote backwoods home

Energy

Generators alone are not enough

Solar power trailer Part 1

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Choose your ammo… police style

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

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 —...