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Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

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

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

A simple backwoods hay baler

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #82 • July/August, 2003 During the winter months, Steve and his wife Tandy feed between 120 and 150 bales of hay...

This coop is for the birds

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Build a log crib

A river rock shower

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...

Growing the Eternal Tomato

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Slug Zapper

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:...

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

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

The time-travel ad

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Dehydrating eggs at home

Woodstove cooking

Raspberry chocolate torte

Cauliflower-Ham Chowder

Self-reliance

Learning to love the high desert

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

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

Make your own firestarters

Energy

Solar-powered chicken coop

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Grid-down battery devices

Homemade electric power

Guns and Hunting

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

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Catch your own bait

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...