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Animals

Get to know your spiders

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Raising your own beef for your family

Raising Rabbits

Building

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

By Don Lewis In the last issue of Backwoods Home Magazine, we covered Part 1 of livestock fencing for the small homesteader. The article included...

Make adobe bricks

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Garlic

By Melissa Souza Issue #167 • September/October, 2017 Garlic is easy and rewarding to grow. I use it throughout the year, as it is extremely easy...

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Gardening the Year ‘Round

The Potato Hole

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #31 • January/February, 1995 "What were you listening to when I got to your house? Sounded nice. I don't think I've ever...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

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

The greatest American who was never President

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Glazed spiced mocha brownies

Middle Eastern breads

Here are some cucumber pickles to make at home

Mac’s lamb curry bake

Self-reliance

What to do when there’s no doctor

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

Energy

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Build Your Own Car Wash

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Firearms — Tools of rural living

By Massad Ayoob Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 So, editor Dave Duffy and I got to talking about guns. We agreed that for some people they...

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Choose your ammo… police style

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

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

Science

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 —...

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Science and truth. Are they related?

Politics and Commentary

A Republic vs. A Democracy

The destruction of the mass print media will help save freedom in America

How to achieve affordable health care

The chances of global disaster