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Animals

Good-bye old friend

Goat birthing and raising kids

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Building your chicken coop

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Here's a coop we built from pallets and scrap lumber. The goats lived in one end and the...

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

This coop is for the birds

Farm and Garden

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

By Glenn Willis, Jr. Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Several years ago my sister and her husband had an 8-horse gas-powered rototiller that went belly up....

Pruning Blueberries

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #31 • January/February, 1995 "What were you listening to when I got to your house? Sounded nice. I don't think I've ever...

The greatest American who was never President

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

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

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Food and recipes

Duck with Mushrooms

German green beans

Fresh cucumber delight

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Self-reliance

Cut your grocery bill in half

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

The Trigger Line

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

Energy

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

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

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 One of our readers e-mailed John Silveira to tell him that taking a handgun afield after a long...

Catch your own bait

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

The light at the end of the gun

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...