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Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Bottle-raise a calf

Beekeeping basics

Brooder in a box

Building

Solar Building Design

By Steven Heckeroth Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 Solar building design has been used since ancient times. In the more recent past, it has been more...

Build Your Own Car Wash

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Never underestimate a woman

Farm and Garden

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

By Edward Love Johnson Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 I began experimenting with mound gardening several years ago, due to limited garden space. Then as time...

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

Fly it proudly and properly

Fried chicken for breakfast

The greatest American who was never President

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Food and recipes

Preserving plums

Twice Cooked Pork

Tetsukabuto squash pie

Sweet Ginger Eggs

Self-reliance

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

Food security 101

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Energy

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Dim bulbs in California

Guns and Hunting

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...

Picking a holster

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Of guns and snakes

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...