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Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Raising your own beef

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

By Charles Sanders Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 Drying of food as a means of preservation has been around for a long time. Populations in suitably...

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

New invention— The Fencerunner

Rural Building

A river rock shower

Farm and Garden

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my...

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

The Home Citrus Orchard

Americana and History

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

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

The vanishing outhouse

Constitution of the united States of America

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

Food and recipes

Lenie in the kitchen: Pumpkin sweet bread with walnuts

Colorado Cowboy Cookies

General Tso’s Chicken

Tomato and basil sauce

Self-reliance

Caveman walking stick

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

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Make a quilt out of Levis

Energy

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Solar system codes — Build it right!

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Job site solar power

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...