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Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #43 • January/February, 1997 I know that there are a lot of really fine products available for turning logs into lumber,...

Three Raised Bed Designs

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Build a log crib

Farm and Garden

Growing Potatoes in Straw

By Habeeb Salloum Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 Virtually unknown to people in other parts of the world, the inhabitants in the Northern European countries have...

The Potato Hole

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

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

Americana and History

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

The summer of ’35

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Easy-to-make farmer’s cheese

Polish Chicken

Feeding large families without breaking the bank

Fail-proof white bread

Self-reliance

Buy your country place from the government

Homemade pest traps

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Energy

Battery powered weekend retreat

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Millenium Vehicles

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Guns and Hunting

Firearms and cold weather considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Many of our readers have established their abodes in places which, during the winter months, do not exactly...

Catch your own bait

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...