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Animals

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Goat birthing and raising kids

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Building

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

By James F. Deaton Website Exclusive • January, 2006 The need to get firewood from a draw below my house to my woodshed started me on...

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

Woodbarrow

A house a tornado helped build

Farm and Garden

Naughty Peppers

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 If you are prudish, narrow-minded or puritanical, read no further as this article...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Love Those Green Beans

The $1 Garden

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

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

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

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Scallop Crunch Appetizer

Gourmet nutrition with beans and rice

Dishpan cookies

Aunt Ona’s Mandarin orange cake

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

The wonderful world of axes

Medical kits for self-reliant families

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

Energy

Solar Food Drying

Add solar power to your truck camper

Solar Building Design

Waterpower for personal use

Guns and Hunting

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • July, 2008 Fifty years ago, Savage Arms introduced a new bolt-action sporting rifle. In the gun world, this was news....

Choose your ammo… police style

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

Of guns and snakes

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Science

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...