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Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Slaughtering and Butchering

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

By Charles Sanders Issue #94 • July/August, 2005 Perhaps one of the most important innovations in modern plumbing has been the development of polyvinyl chloride (PVC),...

How to Install a Steel Roof

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Build a chicken tractor

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

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...

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Growing Microgreens

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

Fruit Trees

Americana and History

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

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

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

The vanishing outhouse

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Plantation Coffee Punch

The convenience of a bread bucket

Egg thingies

Baked barbeque beans

Self-reliance

Survival/utility vest

The poor man’s ultra-light dual-fuel backpacking stove

Jackie’s tips for hardcore homesteading

For safety’s sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly

Energy

Prepper power! Part 2

Dim bulbs in California

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Add solar power to your truck camper

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Firearms — Tools of rural living

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...