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Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

Brooder in a box

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Bottle-raise a calf

Building

Building your chicken coop

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Here's a coop we built from pallets and scrap lumber. The goats lived in one end and the...

Build Your Own Hoop House

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Getting logs

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

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...

Fruit Trees

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

The Home Citrus Orchard

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

Remembering what grandma used

The vanishing outhouse

The summer of ’35

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Food and recipes

Stuffed Mushrooms – Greek Style

Greens and rhubarb are spring tonics

Fermented dill pickles

Artichoke Omelet Appetizer

Self-reliance

A guide to buying silver and gold

Storm survivors

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Life-saving snowshoes

Energy

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Waterpower for personal use

Dim bulbs in California

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Guns and Hunting

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...