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Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Shake update

By David Lee Website Exclusive • January, 2005 Since my shake article was published in Backwoods Home Magazine, Issue #88, I have learned that some of...

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Grow Your Own Dishrags

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Some of us are thrifty beyond measure, even growing our own dishrags. None...

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Aunt Ona’s Mandarin orange cake

Glazed carrots with peas and onions

Bologna sandwiches and roasted rabbit

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Moderate power firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Robert Ruark, the great American writer of the mid-Twentieth Century, was also a big game hunter. One of...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Terrorist attack! Was this predictable?

We don’t need no steenking 2nd Amendment

Bovine basics for beginners

By Patrice Lewis Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 Congratulations. You've escaped the city life and are now the proud owners of your little plot of rural...

Once a day milking

By Patrice Lewis Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 It sounds bucolic, doesn't it? The simple joys of milking your own cow. Fresh milk, fresh cream, homemade...

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Goat birthing and raising kids

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Just for Kids: Killing some time (Create an afternoon time warp)

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

By Glenn Willis, Jr. Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Several years ago my sister and her husband had an 8-horse gas-powered rototiller that went belly up. They fussed with it a bit, but couldn't get it...

By Anita Evangelista Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 City gardens and country gardens are differentnot only in the amount of space each can fill, but in the types and quantities of...