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Building

Farm and Garden

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

By Nancy Wolcott Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 You are sitting there in your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the day...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Blueberry Cash Crop

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Catfish Biscuits

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

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Use the right ammunition!

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Big boomer guns

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Theories of the universe

Gee-Whiz: Insects

The world is ending! … Again?

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

By Allen Easterly Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 Raising quail is inexpensive, easy, provides very healthy low-fat white meat, and supplies the fertilizer you need for...

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

By Linda Slate Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 While searching for a large quantity (five pounds or more) feeder for my backyard flock, I kept running...

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Finding the best dog for the country life

Good-bye old friend

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

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 While growing up in Detroit, we had no nut trees in our yard (though we did have seedlings before I left home). That didn't stop my parents, though....
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Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

By Jackie Clay Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 Start your garden this year while the snow is still on the ground. I start all of my own plants from seeds. One of my favorite winter pastimes...
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