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Animals

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Animal disease traceability

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

By Melissa Souza  Issue #159 • May/June, 2016 My family is committed to becoming as self-sufficient...

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Never underestimate a woman

Farm and Garden

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

By Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 A new electric fence attached to older traditional wood fencing More and more people are turning to...

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Build a Composter

Gardening for Treasure

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Americana and History

The time-travel ad

By John Silveira Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 It's become a minor Internet phenomenon. The ad reads: It's also been read by Jay Leno on his late...

The vanishing outhouse

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

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

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

Food and recipes

Cajun-baked turnip

Baby bok choy with tofu

Broccoli-Turkey Casserole

Pickled Sweet Green Tomatoes

Self-reliance

Drive your own freshwater well

Food security 101

Preparing for civil unrest

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Energy

Solar-powered chicken coop

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Solar hot water systems

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

Moderate power firearms

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Use the right ammunition!

Catch your own bait

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...