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Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Get to know your spiders

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Building

How to Install a Steel Roof

By Morgan Barker  Issue #159 • May/June, 2016 Steel roofing isn't just for factories and barns...

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Build your own portable forge

Farm and Garden

Saving Seeds

By Jackie Clay Issue #129 • May/June, 2011 I go through dozens of garden seed catalogs in preparation for each year's new (and better!) garden. I...

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

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

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Food and recipes

Home canning safety tips

Food security 101: Part 1

Jo’s Kentucky-fried cole slaw

Layered Casserole & Pea Salad

Self-reliance

Make your own firestarters

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Teach your kids math with the banking game

The cholesterol in your stovepipe can be fatal

Energy

Solar-powered chicken coop

Solar hot water systems

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Guns and Hunting

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

By Claire Wolfe Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 My friend Jack pulled the car into a grassy clearing. We donned rubber boots, fetched a metal detector...

Picking a holster

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Building the coyote rifle

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...