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Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Get to know your spiders

Building

Adventures with a portable sawmill

By Pat Barden Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 I was raised in the suburbs and spent most of my adult life living in apartments and houses...

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Farm and Garden

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown...

Propagating Grapes

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Gardening for Treasure

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

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

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Jamaican Beef Patties

Chilies rellenos

Boston brown bread

Lentil and meat stew

Self-reliance

Defeating debt

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

Cold process goat milk soap

There’s no such thing as free land!

Energy

Battery powered weekend retreat

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Hydronic woodstoves

Guns and Hunting

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • July, 2008 Fifty years ago, Savage Arms introduced a new bolt-action sporting rifle. In the gun world, this was news....

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Affordable firearms

Science

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

By O. E. MacDougal January/February 2016, Backwoods Home Most people don’t know that we’re currently in an ice age and have been for the last 2.58...

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

Theories of the universe

The world is ending! … Again?

Politics and Commentary

The black man’s worst enemy is not racism

10 traits for better living

Our energy crisis Part 3 — Alternative energy resources for the nation and for the self-reliant

Money can buy happiness