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Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

A contrary guide to feeding animals

A house a tornado helped build

By Robert L. Williams Issue #16 • July/August, 1992 On May 5, 1989, tornadoes ripped through parts of three western North Carolina counties, including ours, and...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Home-Grown Eggs

By Allen Easterly Issue #165 • May/June, 2017 Maybe you’ve thought about keeping a few chickens for their eggs but didn’t want to be awakened at...

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Cool dishes for formal summer dining

How to organize an outdoor canning party

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Build a community assistance recharging station

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

How to shoot a handgun accurately

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 As little as 30 years ago the talk wasn't about global warming, it was about an imminent ice...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

The rationale of the automatic rifle

Dr. Laura tells her listeners she’s decided to pack a gun

Defending against terroristic mass murder

Something unsaid about Timothy McVeigh’s execution

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

By Jayn Steidl Thibodeau Issue #36 • November/December, 1995 Have you ever had this happen to you? You've opened the refrigerator door for a cold, refreshing...

Where our farm animals come from

Issue #105 • May/June, 2007 We don't know how far back the domestication of animals goes. But we...

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

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

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

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

Small Town America: Thermopolis, WY — Horses and hot springs

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

By Jereme Zimmerman  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 Bamboo: The very word evokes an image of groves of tall, leafy plants swaying gently through the air...

Garden Spaces for Small Places

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden. Minnie Aumonier Yes, and if your budget is lean and you want something green, there's...