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Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Redworm farming

The homestead cat

Where our farm animals come from

Building

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

How safe is your electric fence?

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

Farm and Garden

Love Those Green Beans

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #68 • March/April, 2001 Anyone with some gardening space, a sunny location, and good loamy soil with pH 6.0-7.5 can grow...

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Grow some winter squash this year

Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Remembering what grandma used

Food and recipes

Texas Fireballs By Randy Young

Shiitake mushrooms

Puerto Rican Rice With Pork

Chicken with galanga in coconut milk soup

Self-reliance

This country job really rocks

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

In the classroom and at home, this system will help you grow self-reliant kids

Cleaning a well

Energy

Build Your Own Car Wash

Power your bug-out bag

Energy class: Part 3

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Guns and Hunting

Firearms and cold weather considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Many of our readers have established their abodes in places which, during the winter months, do not exactly...

Women and guns

Cold weather shooting considerations

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...