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Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Build a poultry killing cone

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

This coop is for the birds

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 You can buy a dozen eggs at the supermarket for 99 cents, or you can go out to...

Build a chicken tractor

Building your chicken coop

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Build Your Own Hoop House

Farm and Garden

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our...

Caring for your chickens in winter

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Slug Zapper

Three Raised Bed Designs

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

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

The time-travel ad

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

Food and recipes

Challah

In search of the perfect cup of coffee

Dragon’s breath chili

Chicken Curry

Self-reliance

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

A determined Rose Bley escaped the city

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Energy

Solar power for farm and ranch

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Solar suitcase

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

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

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...