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Animals

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Raising Rabbits

Get to know your spiders

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Building

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

By Bob Van Putten Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 The native peoples of North America were a very practical lot. Over the centuries they developed some...

Build an attached solar greenhouse

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Build a graceful footbridge

Renovating old walls

Farm and Garden

The Best City Garden

By Anita Evangelista Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 City gardens and country gardens are differentnot only in the amount of space...

The Home Citrus Orchard

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

The barnyard scramble

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Baked Beans, Two

Dehydrating eggs at home

Chicken Saltimbocca with Escarole

Brew your own root beer

Self-reliance

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

I heat my house by burning corn

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

Breastfeeding — Babies love it, and for good reason

Energy

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Solar hot water systems

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Dim bulbs in California

Guns and Hunting

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Choose your ammo… police style

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...