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Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Slaughtering and Butchering

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Building

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

A simple backwoods hay baler

Rural Building

Farm and Garden

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s...

Gardening Tips and Tricks

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Remembering what grandma used

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Easy homemade dairy products

Greens and rhubarb are spring tonics

Louisiana gumbo

Persimmon cookies

Self-reliance

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

How we found our remote backwoods home

The poor man’s ultra-light dual-fuel backpacking stove

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Energy

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Guns and Hunting

Affordable firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 Knowing that frugality is one of the cornerstones of rural living, Editor Annie Tuttle suggested that I tackle...

Air power superiority

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Building the coyote rifle

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...