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Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Building

Rural Building

By Martin Harris Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 From the architect's chair Before beginning any building project, it is usually beneficial, from a time and cost perspective,...

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Making and using a solar cooker

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

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...

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Okra — Not Just for the South

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

The greatest American who was never President

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Food and recipes

Nana V’s fire sauce

Brew your own root beer

American food — It’s as varied as the melting pot

Potato Bread

Self-reliance

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

Start a post-construction cleaning business

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Energy

Millenium Vehicles

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Solar hot water systems

Prepper power! Part 1

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...

Canning game meat

The light at the end of the gun

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...