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Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Goat birthing and raising kids

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....

Getting logs

Install rafters alone the easy way

Build your own repeating mouse trap

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

Farm and Garden

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

By Kristina Seleshanko There are few things I enjoy more than snuggling up next to the woodstove with a cup of coffee and my garden...

Growing Strawberries

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Fruit Trees

The Best City Garden

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Lenie in the kitchen: Lemon scones, pound cake, and pie

Blueberry tofu frappe

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Just for Kids: Some pioneer recipes

Self-reliance

Storm survivors

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Homemade skin care products

10 tips for selling your homemade product

Energy

Prepper power! Part 2

Energy class: Part 1

Power Up

Job site solar power

Guns and Hunting

How big a gun do you need?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 We Americans like to do things in a big way. Big houses. Big cars. Big boats. And, yes,...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Big boomer guns

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...

Gee-Whiz: Time

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Politics and Commentary

Chuck meets Bubba

The land of the unfree

Money can buy happiness

Some thoughts on growing older in the backwoods