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Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

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

Building

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

By Patrice Lewis One of the advantages of living a homesteading lifestyle is participants can kick aside the ever-changing concepts of what constitutes “classy” home...

Rural Building

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

The Forever Floor

Building a $3,000 Barn

Farm and Garden

Growing Microgreens

By Lisa Nourse Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The small town where I live has two small grocery stores and getting a good variety of organic...

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Build a Keyhole Garden

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

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

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Tomato and basil sauce

Skillet Spanish rice

Tricia’s chicken chili

Self-reliance

Jackie’s tips for hardcore homesteading

Sewing and using cloth diapers is easier than you think

Cast iron

Preparing for civil unrest

Energy

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Homemade electric power

Add solar power to your truck camper

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

Tailoring guns to females

Women and guns

Cold weather shooting considerations

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

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...