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Animals

Brooder in a box

Bovine basics for beginners

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Animal disease traceability

Building

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

By Joe Mooney Issue #146 • March/April, 2014 Using a corrugated road culvert as a cistern is an economical way to add to your water storage....

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Farm and Garden

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

By Glenn Willis, Jr. Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Several years ago my sister and her husband had an 8-horse gas-powered rototiller that went belly up....

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

The greatest American who was never President

Biological and chemical weapons through history

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

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Food and recipes

Apple Coffee Cake

Mac’s lamb curry bake

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

How to use those leftovers

Self-reliance

The many benefits of garlic

Roger Clark: Cane syrup maker

Food security 101, part 3: Why I love my vacuum sealer (and more)

Pump water for free

Energy

Dim bulbs in California

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Guns and Hunting

How to shoot a handgun accurately

By Massad Ayoob Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 "I want you to do an article on how to shoot a handgun accurately," Dave Duffy told me....

Women and guns

Reload your own brass

Affordable firearms

Big boomer guns

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...