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Animals

Redworm farming

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Building

Never underestimate a woman

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #32 Mar/Apr 1998 (In the May/June issue , we published an article by Dorothy Ainsworth titled "Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log...

Build a pallet fence

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

How safe is your electric fence?

Farm and Garden

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown...

Companion Planting

How to Grow Great Carrots

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Naughty Peppers

Americana and History

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 —...

Fly it proudly and properly

The barnyard scramble

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Easy homemade dairy products

Lamb Curry with Yogurt

Sweet potato pudding

Cajun Shrimp Appetizer

Self-reliance

10 ways to make money on your land

How to make money from storage building auctions

Preparing for civil unrest

Pump water for free

Energy

Is steam power in your future?

Power-up bag

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Guns and Hunting

The time for modern; the time for traditional

By Massad Ayoob Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Traditional "old skool" guns, or the most modern and efficient ballistic hardware that money can buy? I asked...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Moderate power firearms

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...