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Raising cattle on your own place

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Raising your own beef for your family

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

By James Ballou Issue #74 • March/April, 2002 A certain degree of self reliance is obtainable by those who have the knowledge and skills, resourcefulness, courage,...

Making and using a solar cooker

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Build your own log home in the woods

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...

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

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...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

Nursing: A perfect backwoods career

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...

Tackling the real problems that face us

Putting it all on the Amtrak line for Self-Reliance magazine

Dr. Laura tells her listeners she’s decided to pack a gun

Switch your family to goat’s milk

By Tanya Kelley Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 If you milk goats, there's no doubt you've heard it"Eww! Goat's milk! Gross!" To be perfectly honest, goat...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 There have been very few times in our nation's history when "We, the people" have banded together so fiercely as we did during World War II. We...

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

By Maggie Larsen Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 During a binge of spring cleaning, I ventured outside and began to renovate the exterior of my home, a 47-foot trailer in a mobile home park. While waiting...