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Animals

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Building

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

By Robert Van Putten Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 My wife and I built our homestead by hand. I’m not a professional builder, so once in...

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Woodbarrow

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Farm and Garden

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

By Charles Sanders Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 There are mountains of old tires out there. Americans keep on rolling and tires keep on wearing out....

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Naughty Peppers

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Companion Planting

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

The vanishing outhouse

Fly it proudly and properly

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

Food and recipes

The best apple pie you’ll ever bake

Making hard cider

Home canning safety tips

Apple and berry pies

Self-reliance

What to do when there’s no doctor

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part III

Defeating debt

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Energy

Portable solar power

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Build your own battery charging station

Add solar power to your truck camper

Guns and Hunting

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Tailoring guns to females

Moderate power firearms

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...