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Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Slaughtering and Butchering

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Where our farm animals come from

Building

Rural Building

By Martin Harris Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 Q. We have just purchased 15 acres, and our question is how to install our septic system, how...

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Farm and Garden

Plant Once Harvest for Years

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 Year after year we start seeds, till the ground, plant, weed, harvest, then tear it all out at...

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

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Meat For the Homestead

Americana and History

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

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

The barnyard scramble

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

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Cooking from long-term food storage

Fish — This gourmet food is fun to catch, relatively easy to cook, and healthy to eat

Lenie in the kitchen: Pumpkin sweet bread with walnuts

Tomato and coriander salad

Self-reliance

Swedish log candle

Breastfeeding — Babies love it, and for good reason

Survival storeroom

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Energy

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Solar hot water systems

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Guns and Hunting

Firearms and cold weather considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Many of our readers have established their abodes in places which, during the winter months, do not exactly...

Affordable firearms

Moderate power firearms

Building the coyote rifle

Choose your ammo… police style

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...