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Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Building

Small engine maintenance for women

By Michelle Richards Issue #24 • November/December, 1993 How many small engines do you have on your homestead? I counted mine the other day and came...

Claw Hammers

A house a tornado helped build

Build a pallet fence

Woodbarrow

Farm and Garden

Okra — Not Just for the South

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #58 • July/August, 1999 No one is quite sure about how okra seeds came to this country....

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Currants and Gooseberries

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Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document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...

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

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

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

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Bread — The staff of life

Old-fashioned meat pie casserole

Blueberry tofu frappe

Duck with Mushrooms

Self-reliance

Your survival depends on water

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

The 7 core areas of preparedness

Energy

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Solar Food Drying

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,...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

How big a gun do you need?

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...