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Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Brooder in a box

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Raising Rabbits

Building

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #43 • January/February, 1997 I know that there are a lot of really fine products available for turning logs into lumber,...

Installing a steel roof

Our Unconventional House

How to maintain a dirt road

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Farm and Garden

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

By Jackie Clay Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 Although I've been homesteading for more than forty years, there's always something new to learn. (I figure that...

Companion Planting

The Best City Garden

The $1 Garden

The Potato Hole

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Catfish Biscuits

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Jerusalem artichokes with brown rice

Sweet Ginger Eggs

Fail-proof white bread

Adventures of a 9-pound cabbage

Self-reliance

13 steps to a life of freedom

Breastfeeding — Babies love it, and for good reason

Dealing with heat stress

10 day survival pack for your vehicle for just $25

Energy

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Power your bug-out bag

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Guns and Hunting

Thoughts on ammunition

By Massad Ayoob Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Ammunition is to firearms as gasoline is to automobiles. However, with guns and ammo, the fit isn't quite...

Use the right ammunition!

Tailoring guns to females

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

The light at the end of the gun

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...