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Building

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

By Robert Van Putten Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 My wife and I built our homestead by hand. I’m not a professional builder, so once in...

Rural Building

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Farm and Garden

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Every person who is striving for self-reliance should, and most do, plant a garden from which to raise...

Mid-season planting

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Fermenting Chicken Feed

The $1 Garden

Americana and History

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

By Massad Ayoob Issue #163 • January/February, 2017 Click Here to read Part 1 Click Here to read Part 2 As noted in the two previous parts of...

Tailoring guns to females

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Choose your ammo… police style

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

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...

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

The many benefits of garlic

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Beekeeping basics

<!-- Beekeeping basics By Charles Sanders --> Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Bees have been managed for their honey production for about 5000 years or so. Especially for the...

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

By Margaret Wright Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 When we think of a backwoods dog we generally think of a Pyrenees, German Shepherd, or other breed...

Redworm farming

Good-bye old friend

Build a poultry killing cone

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Companion Planting

By Beverly Mettot Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 Companion planting is nothing new, and yet in recent years it has made an extraordinary comeback, not only in fooling those pesky pests who thrive on fruits and...
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Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

By Sherry Willis   Issue #145 • January/February, 2014     The recent droughts in the midwest have meant hard times for many livestock owners. Areas without irrigation saw parched earth without a scrap of green anywhere. Corn withered...
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