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Animals

Home Dairying

Raising cattle on your own place

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

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Building

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

By Roy Martin Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 A hotbed is a miniature greenhouse that is heated to protect new seedlings from cold. The hotbed differs...

Build a wood crib with free materials

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

Build a barrel stove

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Farm and Garden

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

By Lisa LaFreniere Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 Bush Beans, or snap beans as they're sometimes referred to, are a growing favorite among many gardeners, and...

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Okra — Not Just for the South

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Americana and History

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

By John Silveira Issue #31 • January/February, 1995 "What were you listening to when I got to your house? Sounded nice. I don't think I've ever...

The vanishing outhouse

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

The greatest American who was never President

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Making sausage

Braised rabbit with red wine

Blunt family chili

Blueberry tofu frappe

Self-reliance

Start a post-construction cleaning business

Power Up

Hypothermia — A real winter danger

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Energy

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Energy class: Part 1

Solar hot water systems

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Guns and Hunting

Big boomer guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 For you long time readers, I know what you're thinkin'"Hey, isn't this the guy who within the last...

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Firearms and cold weather considerations

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

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...