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Animals

Goat birthing and raising kids

Good-bye old friend

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Once a day milking

Building

Build a pizza oven

By Mike Lorenzen Issue #143 • September/October, 2013 About a year ago, my wife and I traveled around Italy by car. We had lots of wood-fired...

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

The Forever Floor

Farm and Garden

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

By Lisa LaFreniere Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 Bush Beans, or snap beans as they're sometimes referred to, are a growing favorite among many gardeners, and...

Home-Grown Eggs

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Saving Seeds

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

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

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Food and recipes

Lamb and black bean tamale pie

Apples and sweet potatoes

Basic biscotti cookie

Braised rabbit with red wine

Self-reliance

Learning to love the high desert

Medical kits for self-reliant families

Bartering for bad times

How to make money from storage building auctions

Energy

Power Up

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Guns and Hunting

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...

Use the right ammunition!

Moderate power firearms

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Women and guns

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...