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Animals

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

Redworm farming

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

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

Woodbarrow

By Setanta O’Ceillaigh When I first abandoned a slum town and fled back to the countryside I gathered and carried firewood with a laundry basket....

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Solar Building Design

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...

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

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

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Build a Composter

Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

The time-travel ad

Grandpa’s justice

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

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Spicy Beef

Easy homemade dairy products

Dublin Coddle

Artichoke-Spinach Casserole

Self-reliance

Buying the right emergency radio

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Getting out of Dodge — 10 Things I am doing to prepare for the move to the country

New yarn from old sweaters

Energy

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Portable solar power

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Energy class: Part 1

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...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Tailoring guns to females

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

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...