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Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Raising your own beef for your family

Raising your own beef

Building

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

By Robert Van Putten Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 For as long as I can remember, I’ve always wanted a rustic log cabin deep in the...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

How to maintain a dirt road

Build a log crib

Farm and Garden

The Potato Hole

By Sylvia Gist Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Carrots go in sand in the green pail and potatoes can be sorted by type into plastic mesh...

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Companion Planting

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Testing Soil

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 —...

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The vanishing outhouse

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Fermented dill pickles

Apricot stuffed Lamb Chops

Glazed carrots with peas and onions

Easy, no-knead bread by Melissa Souza

Self-reliance

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Breastfeeding — A primer

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Energy

Dim bulbs in California

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Guns and Hunting

Firearms and cold weather considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Many of our readers have established their abodes in places which, during the winter months, do not exactly...