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Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Renovating old walls

By David Lee Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Some years ago my wife and I were out searching for a new building lot when we fell...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet....

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Emergency solar power for $950

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

Cold weather shooting considerations

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Choose your ammo… police style

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

By O. E. MacDougal January/February 2016, Backwoods Home Most people don’t know that we’re currently in an ice age and have been for the last 2.58...

Science and truth. Are they related?

A history lesson from Ayn Rand

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...

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

By Kathleen Sanderson Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 I have had dairy goats for most of the last 20 years or so and have raised almost...

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

Goat birthing and raising kids

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

By Patrice Lewis Issue #141 • May/June, 2013 For much of human history, people have tried to prevent things from rotting. Literally every food preservation method we've come up with in the past few thousand years...

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done by using a water-based nutrient solution to deliver the necessary...