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Animals

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

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

Raising your own beef

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

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....

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Build a chicken tractor

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Potatoes

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Potato plants need plenty of sunshine, a well drained soil, and no weed or grass interference. Ideal...

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Love Those Green Beans

Meat For the Homestead

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Americana and History

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

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Remembering what grandma used

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Grilled Steak with Olive-Blue Cheese Sauce

Peanut Soup

Hearty breakfast fillets

Layered Casserole & Pea Salad

Self-reliance

Start a post-construction cleaning business

Homeschooling through high school

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass

Energy

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Guns and Hunting

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 I take the Springfield Armory rifle out of the box, and savor it. I seldom do that with...

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Moderate power firearms

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...