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Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Get to know your spiders

Redworm farming

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Building

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #152 • March/April, 2015 Here's the finished vanity with our unfinished dresser that will store our extra towels and linens. We've had our log...

Build a deluxe barrel stove

How to maintain a dirt road

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Farm and Garden

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

By Nancy Wolcott Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 You are sitting there in your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the day...

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

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

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

Food and recipes

Blueberry tofu frappe

Kugel

Sweet pepper salad

Keep the Ice On

Self-reliance

Preparedness for travelers

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Frostbite — Don’t flirt with this sneaky danger

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

Energy

Solar suitcase

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

An $89 backup generator

Guns and Hunting

Air power superiority

When a well-placed shot is required, when stealth and quiet are called for, an air rifle may be the best option. By Gary Lewis Issue #151 • January/February,...

Picking a holster

Building the coyote rifle

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Moderate power firearms

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...