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Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

The homestead cat

Redworm farming

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

Build a Trail

By Claire Wolfe Standing near the top of the trail, looking down. The bright sunny spot in the middle distance will...

Building a $3,000 Barn

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Stairs — The next level

Farm and Garden

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

By Mark and Lynn Klammer Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 As spring approaches each year, we can hardly wait for the feel of warm earth between...

Pruning Blueberries

Testing Soil

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Build Your Own Hoop House

Americana and History

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

The summer of ’35

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

The greatest American who was never President

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

Food and recipes

Sweet & Sour Cabbage

Sweet Ginger Eggs

These salads are hearty dishes

Poor man’s shrimp cocktail on perch

Self-reliance

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Fire resistant property

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Guns and Hunting

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

By Massad Ayoob Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 One reader writes to ask if military surplus rifles are still a good idea for hunting, recreational shooting,...

The light at the end of the gun

Canning game meat

Just because

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...