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James Polk — A model for modern presidents

By John Silveira Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 It was snowing and three of us were up at the office. Dave Duffy, the fellow who publishes...

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

Constitution of the united States of America

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Raising cattle on your own place

Where our farm animals come from

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

By Robert Van Putten Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 For a year and a half, we lived in an 18-foot travel trailer while building a straw...

A house a tornado helped build

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

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Easy, no-knead bread by Melissa Souza

Gun control, race, and rotten politicians

Things kids should learn before leaving high school, but don’t

The logic behind term limits and a historical perspective

The chances of global disaster

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...

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Sight and sound enhancement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 Enhancing vision and hearing can make you a safer, more effective shooter, and sometimes can save human lives. Captain...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

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...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

How to make money from storage building auctions

Switch your family to goat’s milk

By Tanya Kelley Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 If you milk goats, there's no doubt you've heard it"Eww! Goat's milk! Gross!" To be perfectly honest, goat...

Finding the best dog for the country life

By Anita Evangelista Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 When you're looking for a dog to fit into your country life, there are few other topics as...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Goat birthing and raising kids

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

Making a great rug from the rag bag

Learning to love the high desert

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 While growing up in Detroit, we had no nut trees in our yard (though we did have seedlings before I left home). That didn't stop my parents, though....

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

By Charles Sanders Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 There are mountains of old tires out there. Americans keep on rolling and tires keep on wearing out. Every year there is almost one scrap tire created for...