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Animals

Redworm farming

Raising rabbits for profit

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Building

Build a barrel stove

By Nick Weston Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 This stove kept me warm and provided an excellent cooking surface for more than six months while I...

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Build a chicken tractor

Three Raised Bed Designs

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Farm and Garden

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

By Darlene Polachic Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 Why spend money buying plant starter packs when you can make all you need from old newspapers? The...

How to Grow Potatoes

Testing Soil

The Homestead Greenhouse

The $1 Garden

Americana and History

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

By John Silveira Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 It was snowing and three of us were up at the office. Dave Duffy, the fellow who publishes...

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

The time-travel ad

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Food security 101: Part 1

Fried Foods

Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter

Pheasant and dumplings

Self-reliance

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

10 tips for selling your homemade product

Disaster preparation!

Funerals don’t have to be expensive

Energy

Build a community assistance recharging station

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Water pumping windmills

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Guns and Hunting

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...

Catch your own bait

Big boomer guns

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...