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Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Raising rabbits for profit

Where our farm animals come from

Building

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 When I bought 10 dry barren "affordable" acres back in 1981 I got what I paid for: No...

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Farm and Garden

Growing Strawberries

By Patrice Lewis Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 As you read this, the wind may well be howling and the snow piling deep, and you're likely...

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Americana and History

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Constitution of the united States of America

The barnyard scramble

Catfish Biscuits

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

Food and recipes

Solar Food Drying

Corned Beef Cakes

Sweet & Sour Cabbage

Easy homemade dairy products

Self-reliance

The return of home emergency shelters takes on a dual-purpose approach

Homestead security for women

Foraging for wild berries

Swedish log candle

Energy

Making and using a solar cooker

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Guns and Hunting

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...

Air power superiority

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Cold weather shooting considerations

Firearms and cold weather considerations

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...