Article Index

Americana / History

Special Historical Documents

• The Constitution of The United States of America
• The Declaration of Independence
• The Emancipation Proclamation
• President George Washington's Farewell Address
• The Federalist Papers (Offsite Link)
• The Antifederalist Papers (Offsite Link)

• The Electoral College — how we elect the President  Issue #18
• Doesn't anyone remember Tom Paine?  Issue #19
• Quilts — masterpieces of the heart and windows into women's history  Issue #22
• America's earliest First Ladies were fascinating (Part I)  Issue #29
• Former First Ladies — beautiful, brilliant, crazy (Part II)  Issue #30
• Carver — he wrote the book on self reliance  Issue #31
• James Polk — a model for modern presidents  Issue #32
• Presidential wives, Part III (First Ladies)  Issue #34
• Presidents' wives, Part IV — cunning, vindictive, and maybe one murderess (First Ladies)  Issue #35
• Feeling nostalgic? Now you'll rave! Here's the story of Burma Shave  Issue #37
• Who were the best...and the worst U.S. Presidents?  Issue #49
• The greatest American who was never President  Issue #60
• The summer of '35  Issue #64
• Biological and chemical weapons through history  Issue #81
• A brief history of health and medicine  Issue #100
• The Great Depression: a reminiscence  Issue #115
• Ten real inspirations  Issue #116
• A quick tour of hyperinflation and the possible consequences for America  Issue #122
• The Tea Party Movement!  Issue #123

Animals

• Llamas guarding sheep? Not such a far-fetched idea  Issue #19
• Slaughtering and Butchering  Issue #23
• How to buy your first sheep (without getting shorn)  Issue #32
• This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma's life (a true dog story)   Issue #35
• Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family cow   Issue #36
• Raising your own beef for your family  Issue #57
• Finding the best dog for the country life  Issue #63
• Dorper sheep  Issue #75
• How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less  Issue #79
• Brooder in a box  Issue #80
• Raising cattle on your own place  Issue #85
• Beekeeping basics  Issue #88
• Kinder goats: a small breed for milk and meat  Issue #95
• Once a day milking  Issue #99
• Raising quail  Issue #101
• Where our farm animals come from  Issue #105
• Are aliens stealing our honeybees?  Issue #106
• Raising rabbits for profit  Issue #106
• Tastes Just Like Chicken  BHM Website Exclusive
• Get to know your spiders  Issue #109
• Chickens—the most valuable animal on the homestead  Issue #109
• Redworm farming  Issue #112
• Goat birthing and raising kids  Issue #112
• Build a chicken feeder on the cheep  Issue #119
• Bottle-raise a calf  Issue #120
• Bovine basics for beginners  Issue #122
• Khaki Campbell ducks — the other egg layer  Issue #126
• Is that a good pig?  Issue #129
• Raising rabbits  Issue #133
• A contrary guide to feeding animals  Issue #135
• Snapping turtles  Issue #136
• Animal disease traceability  Issue #137
• Broody biddies make sense on the homestead  Issue #139

Building / Tools

• A house that a tornado helped build  Issue #16
• Trusses — low-cost marvels to roof over most large spaces  Issue #23
• Small engine maintenance for women  Issue #24
• Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio  Issue #27
• Install rafters alone — the easy way  Issue #35
• Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill  Issue #39
• Here's an easier (and cheaper) way to make wooden beams  Issue #43
• Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence  Issue #45
• Build a homestead copy cart  Issue #45
• Build an all-purpose ladder  Issue #45
• Five building tricks for super strong framing  Issue #49
• Build your own portable forge  Issue #51
• Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain methods  Issue #54
• Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall  Issue #57
• For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno  Issue #57
• Ambidextrous chainsaw filing  Issue #57
• A salvaged oak floor for $5  Issue #59
• Preparation for successful painting  Issue #61
• Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator  Issue #63
• Build a pallet fence  Issue #69
• New invention — the Fencerunner  Issue #68
• Build a log crib  Issue #69
• Build a stone wall  Issue #70
• This coop is for the birds: Mattie Sue, Splatty-Goo, and Fu-man-choo  Issue #71
• Build your own log home in the woods: part 3  Issue #72
• Tools and hardware for the backwoods home  Issue #74
• Yurt magic — building an enchanting instant house  Issue #76
• Build a graceful footbridge  Issue #77
• A river rock shower  Issue #77
• Our Unconventional House   BHM Website Exclusive
• Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount  Issue #84
• The house that Dorothy built  Issue #86
• The poor man's ceramic knife sharpener  Issue #87
• Converting a gasoline-powered rototiller to electric  Issue #87
• Stairs: the next level   BHM Website Exclusive
• Build a trail  Issue #91
• PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop  Issue #94
• Shake update   BHM Website Exclusive
• The forever floor  Issue #92
• The Mini-Skyline   BHM Website Exclusive
• Build a groundhog snare  Issue #98
• Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500  Issue #101
• How to build a good fence for your homestead  Issue #103
• Adventures with a portable sawmill  Issue #104
• Renovating old walls  Issue #106
• Shelves and benches  Issue #107
• Build a deluxe barrel stove  Issue #108
• A cabin for one  Issue #109
• Make adobe bricks  Issue #110
• Build your own repeating mouse trap  Issue #110
• Building Eric's house  Issue #112
• Build your own home in two years  Issue #115
• Life-long siding with fiber cement board  Issue #117
• Choosing a chain saw  Issue #119
• Build a hybrid go-kart for kids for $150   BHM Website Exclusive
• Build an attached solar greenhouse  Issue #125
• Installing a steel roof  Issue #126
• Build a chicken tractor  Issue #127
• Build a barrel stove  Issue #133
• Build your own car wash  Issue #133
• Build a chicken house in a day  Issue #136
• Build a ski sled  Issue #138
• Build a wood-fired stock tank heater  Issue #138
• Building your chicken coop  Issue #139
• Building and using wattle fences  Issue #139

Commentary

• The black man's worst enemy is not racism  Issue #16
• The logic behind term limits and a historical perspective  Issue #35
• Just how good of a bet are those lotto tickets?  Issue #37
• Want proof of luck, ESP, and psychic powers?  Issue #40
• Don't throw away your vote  Issue #42
• A history lesson from Ayn Rand  Issue #44
• Losing our rights as we watch television  Issue #44
• The Militia Movement  Issue #46
• Thanks for not killing them  Issue #48
• That's not what we mean  Issue #49
• Confessions of a former liberal  Issue #50
• Why bureaucracy will likely destroy America  Issue #50
• Do we need a Taxpayers' Bill of Rights?  Issue #53
• Countdown to freedom's Armageddon  Issue #55
• Bill of No Rights  Issue #56
• The real disaster in our future  Issue #56
• The chances of global disaster  Issue #57
• At fascism's doorstep  Issue #57
• We don't need no steenking 2nd Amendment  Issue #58
• Should both drugs and guns be legal?  Issue #59
• Millenium excuses and the quest for truth  Issue #60
• January 16, 2000 — Finding solutions in firewood
• December 31, 1999 — Millenium excuses and the quest for truth
• December 24, 1999 — Life at sea
• December 17, 1999 — The individual still reigns supreme
• December 10, 1999 — BHM being forced off the newsstands
• Remembering a decade of BHM  Issue #61
• February 23, 2001 — Our bankrupt social security system
• February 13, 2001 — Introducing the international tax cartel
• February 12, 2000 — Dr. Laura tells her listeners she's decided to pack a gun
• January 23, 2000 — The media's treatment of blacks makes their socialist bias obvious
• Y2K Conspiracy Continues
• Let's stop apologizing for guns  Issue #62
• May 1, 2001 — A letter from McVeigh, and a look at ourselves
• April 12, 2001 — Something unsaid about Timothy McVeigh's execution
• The real gun criminals  Issue #63
• I don't know  Issue #63
• Why not risk it all?  Issue #64
• Stumbling over your own stupidity  Issue #64
• A lesson in respect  Issue #65
• Can an understanding of math and statistics save America's freedoms?  Issue #66
• The coming American dictatorship  Issue #66
• Abolish the Electoral College? No, but…
• Outplayed & outbluffed  Issue #67
• Goodbye TV, hello constructive time  Issue #67
• Chuck meets Bubba  Issue #68
• Something unsaid about Timothy McVeigh's excecution  Issue #70
• When Liberals Succeed
• How environmental ideology hurts the solar energy industry  Issue #69
• Only in America
• Freeing your inner outlaw  Issue #70
• Father of the year
• To hell with freedom Website Exclusive
• A Dose of Their Own Medicine
• Make our schoolchildren happy - the Constitution demands it
• So What Does a Freedom Lover Do NOW? Website Exclusive
• Challenging thoughts
• Freedom, guns, & boycotts  Issue #71
• National ID — Our Line in the Sand Website Exclusive
• Explaining the use of force
• How do you keep yourself safe?  Issue #72
• Money can buy happiness  Issue #72
• Interesting Questions
• Freedom tomorrow  Issue #73
• Biological & chemical terrorism  Issue #73
• Mistaken for a terrorist  Issue #73
• We should have seen this one coming  Issue #73
• Bye-bye banking Website Exclusive
• It's Time For A Revival Of American Civil Defense
• Whose Name is It, Anyway? Website Exclusive
• Thanks For Nothing, Dell (The Whole Story)
• Personal guns getting to be in style  Issue #74
• Nuclear terrorism  Issue #74
• Silveira's 1st Law: Every group needs a black sheep  Issue #74
• The Importance of Escape Website Exclusive
• The Candy Scam — A Metaphor For Modern Times
• Inside the Dell Zone - The Final Chapter
• Are you ready for liberty in your lifetime? Website Exclusive
• Just Say NO! to the Federal Government  Issue #76
• The terrorists are winning
• 'If it's the law it's the law...'
• The world's least free country  Issue #77
• The Coming American Dictatorship revisited  Issue #77
• Reflections on the Second Amendment  Issue #77
• Is it time for an education revolution?  Issue #77
• Fixing a broken jury system  Issue #78
• Which is better: a small town or city?  Issue #78
• What Santa's Bringing Good Little Outlaws This Year Website Exclusive
• Cheerfully, peacefully...withhold cooperation
• The Anniversary Of The Bill Of Rights: Our second great national holiday -- or at least it should be
• They Can't Catch That Tiger
• What's this business about 'restoring' rights?
• The attack on Colin Powell prompts questions I'm not supposed to ask  Issue #79
• February 24, 2003 — Coverage of the pending war with Iraq is a live example of media bias
• February 19, 2003 — Why America should wage war against Iraq and ignore "Old Europe"
• Sex, Drugs, and Good Deeds Website Exclusive
• The Racism Of 'Diversity'
• Jailed for speaking her mind
• Are these people nuts?
• Why not just outlaw the potatoes?
• An education in freedom Website Exclusive
• How far have property rights been eroded?
• Do we really need Yuppies?  Issue #80
• Confronting the enemy  Issue #81
• Why they no longer treat us with respect
• Larger school districts tend to veer 'off task'
• Is television still a wasteland?  Issue #81
• Dark Winter — A simulated terrorist attack on three American cities using weaponized smallpox  Issue #81
• Gulf War II opened the eyes of Americans to the U.N. and the media  Issue #82
• The curse of oil  Issue #82
• The informed juror  Issue #82
• The Quisling Effect Website Exclusive
• "I stink!" but that's okay  Issue #83
• Gun control, race, and rotten politicians  Issue #83
• Mousers and cat loonies  Issue #83
• Animal rights loonies save the chickens but ruin the County Fair  Issue #84
• Shades of truth and sleaziness  Issue #85
• The world is ending!...again?  Issue #85
• A new country business is born  Issue #86
• The coming ice age  Issue #86
• The "Curious Guy" and the "Offended Woman"   BHM Website Exclusive
• The tenuous hold of honesty in modern America  Issue #87
• A summer of energy fairs and politics  Issue #88
• Democracy in Iraq?  Issue #88
• The burglar does more than steal  Issue #89
• Fake lawsuits, stacked juries, and LAWYERS!  Issue #89
• Getting rich through generosity  Issue #89
• Ordering Pizza In 2008
• Getting what we deserve  Issue #90
• A republic vs. a democracy  Issue #90
• That old survivalist mumbo jumbo and 10 reasons why it makes sense  Issue #91
• The impact of firearms on crime, business, and politics  Issue #91
• Training for the Boston Marathon  Issue #92
• Why we have no "constitutional" rights  Issue #92
• Practicing what we preach  Issue #93
• One good reason for tax reform  Issue #93
• Tsunamis and "the experts"  Issue #94
• Sgt. Jim Duffy — an ordinary hero  Issue #95
• If you want to survive an emergency, look to yourself, not the Government  Issue #96
• Let prisoners get high on marijuana  Issue #96
• Talking to your kids about death  Issue #97
• Activists on both the left and the right spotlight a broken federal government  Issue #97
• Why you may want to get a "stress test"  Issue #98
• The National Animal Identification System is the bureaucrats' latest grab for power  Issue #98
• Government spending  Issue #99
• "If you don't like it here, why don't you move to another country?"  Issue #99
• Confident liberals vs. whiny conservatives?  Issue #100
• If you want to take care of your health, you have to take control of your life  Issue #100
• The Government gorilla in our home  Issue #101
• The land of the unfree  Issue #101
• Who's supposed to protect our rights?  Issue #102
• Which wars work best? The ones we fight or the ones we avoid?  Issue #102
• I'm proud to be a "Losertarian" again  Issue #103
• Loading the gun for a dictatorship  Issue #103
• Finally, a choice in 2008  Issue #104
• America, land of the free...ha, ha, ha!  Issue #104
• Are environmentalists responsible for global warming?  BHM Website Exclusive
• Finally—a disaster that is guaranteed!  Issue #105
• The parasitic nature of bureaucracy  Issue #106
• Self-reliance equals freedom  Issue #107
• Is "peak oil" the new end-of-the-world?  Issue #107
• Questions about global warming  Issue #108
• The unheralded roots of America's freedoms  Issue #108
• Starting the hurricane  Issue #109
• A doomsday scenario to sleep on  Issue #109
• Planning for the inevitable  Issue #110
• Our "unenumerated" rights  Issue #110
• What's driving prices up? What can you do about it?  Issue #111
• Maybe food shortages and hunger will do what intellectual debate can't  Issue #112
• The rising cost of food and fuel  Issue #112
• Thomas Jefferson couldn't get elected today  Issue #112
• A vast cultural divide exists between environmentalists and gun owners  Issue #113
• The real good news in the recent 2nd Amendment decision  Issue #113
• Homemade bread—a metaphor for life  Issue #113
• The world is coming to an end...and this time, I'm not kidding  Issue #114
• A momentous event that puts the Presidential race in perspective  Issue #114
• From gun control to socialism, it begins with the Fairness Doctrine  Issue #115
• The meltdown and the bailout: why, how, and what they mean  Issue #115
• Because they failed to take away our guns, they're coming after our ammo  Issue #116
• How do you save freedom in America?  Issue #116
• Paying for Social Security with worthless $  Issue #117
• Golf's critical life lessons are under threat  Issue #118
• The destruction of the mass print media will help save freedom in America  Issue #119
• Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung colonial heroine?  Issue #119
• The Coming American Dictatorship, Part XI  Issue #119
• How to achieve affordable health care  Issue #120
• Who are the libertarians? Can they save the Constitution?  Issue #120
• Looking back on 20 years of BHM  Issue #120
• Abandoning the Constitution!  Issue #121
• The Second Revolution is on the way!  Issue #123
• California's marijuana initiative: A step in the right direction  Issue #124
• Who was Joe Stack? Why does he matter?  Issue #124
• Magnesium and the International Criminal Court  Issue #125
• Reaching for the stars during a recession  Issue #125
• The time-travel ad  Issue #125
• Don't let crooked politicians hijack the Tea Party movement  Issue #126
• How deep can this recession get? How do we escape from it?  Issue #126
• While the nation languishes in a recession...Traffic tickets are BIG business  Issue #126
• California conservatives missed a chance to speak up for "all" constitutional rights  Issue #127
• Getting the state out of marriage  Issue #127
• Defunding government is a sensible voter solution to reigning in local government  Issue #128
• Justice Breyer is wrong about the 2nd Amendment  Issue #128
• An American dollar worth two cents  Issue #129
• A government with not enough to do, but lots of hungry mouths to feed  Issue #130
• The threat of electromagnetic pulse!  Issue #132
• How we battle the effects of a recession  Issue #132
• Libertarian and Conservative  Issue #133
• The invisible presidential candidate who could put America back on track  Issue #133
• Ron Paul is a disaster for Republicans and Democrats, but not for America's freedoms  BHM Website Exclusive
• Tackling the real problems that face us  Issue #134
• When "good" laws are bad  Issue #134
• Zombie Apocalypse  Issue #134
• Slowing down to enjoy life  Issue #135
• Should we scrap our "old" Constitution?  Issue #135
• Lessons for My Children  Issue #136
• A conspiracy of silence and misinformation  Issue #136
• Lessons for My Children, Chapter 2  Issue #137
• Turn the poor into capitalists  Issue #137
• Hiding from the government  Issue #138
• Why I vote Libertarian  Issue #138
• Preparing for a temporary catastrophe  Issue #139
• The coming ice age  Issue #139
• The Newtown atrocity and "gun control"  Issue #140
• A reason for the Second Amendment  Issue #141
• How a high school band triumphed over a bureaucracy and union that tried to kill it  Issue #141

Country Living

• Some thoughts on growing older in the backwoods  Issue #16
• Fireplace cooking cures the winter blues  Issue #19
• Good-bye old friend  Issue #27
• City boy, Country boy  Issue #33
• The cholesterol in your stovepipe can be fatal  Issue #36
• Moving to the wilderness — turning the dream to reality  Issue #36
• The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job  Issue #37
• Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes  Issue #38
• Working for a dad who works at home  Issue #40
• The dandelion is a healthful, great-tasting weed you can eat  Issue #44
• Mountain lions — attacks are still rare, but just in case...  Issue #50
• A determined Rose Bley escaped the city  Issue #51
• Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos  Issue #52
• How to tell a bad egg  Issue #53
• Reflecting on a life in the woods  Issue #60
• Fully Involved  Issue #58
• Grandpa's justice  Issue #65
• Tale of a country family  Issue #66
• Picking and preserving the wild plum  Issue #69
• Storm Survivors  Issue #71
• Drawing the line on timber trespass  Issue #78
• The vanishing outhouse  Issue #79
• Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them  Issue #80
• The "chocolate tree" isn't just for kids  Issue #85
• Stay clear of young wild animals  Issue #86
• Brood X  BHM Website Exclusive
• Catfish Biscuits  Issue #87
• Fried chicken for breakfast  Issue #88
• Neighbors  Issue #90
• Breaking ice on hard water fishing—a cool introduction to a fun sport  Issue #91
• 10 country do's and don'ts  Issue #96
• Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire  Issue #104
• Footloose and fancy-free in the country  Issue #106
• The joys of idleness  Issue #109
• Simplifying simplicity  Issue #117
• Learning to love the high desert  Issue #120
• Understanding the music: Winter in the High Desert  Issue #121
• Moving on: A small town can be a haven during a depression   Website Exclusive
• Raising kids simply  Issue #131

Crafts & Hobbies

• Making a great rug from the rag bag  Issue #18
• Here's how to make a musical bamboo flute  Issue #42
• Seed art — it's fun to collect the seeds and to create these unusual pictures  Issue #42
• Grandma will love this personal "helping hands" wall hanging  Issue #46
• Homemade toys! Easy to make, fun to play with, great for gifts!  Issue #72
• Make a quilt out of Levis  Issue #77
• Sew a baby quilt in two days...for a lifetime of memories  Issue #83
• Woolen winter mittens in minutes  Issue #84
• Pysanki — you can make those biddies pay!  Issue #86
• How to begin taking wildlife photographs  Issue #120
• New yarn from old sweaters  Issue #132

Energy

• Waterpower for personal use  Issue #16
• Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels  Issue #17
• Design calculations for overshot waterwheels  Issue #18
• Don't discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source  Issue #28
• For a truly independent energy system , your choices are solar, wind, and water  Issue #28
• Independent energy runs Backwoods Home Magazine  Issue #28
• Making and using a solar cooker  Issue #30
• Steam Driven Cars — cars from the past that would make ideal cars for the future  Issue #36
• I heat my house by burning corn  Issue #42
• For safety's sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly  Issue #43
• Diesel generator power is a sensible choice, especially when integrated into the total system  Issue #43
• Is steam power in your future?  Issue #43
• What if the electricity GOES OFF?  Issue #55
• Keeping your food cold: Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce  Issue #56
• Millennium vehicles  Issue #57
• Sunny solutions for north slope applications  Issue #61
• Solar building design  Issue #63
• Radiant floor heating  Issue #64
• 7 solar water heating system designs  Issue #65
• Water: a safe supply when you're off the grid  Issue #71
• Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout  Issue #70
• A solar primer: How it works, how it's made, what it costs  Issue #72
• Emergency solar power for $950
  Issue #73
• How do you live without electricity?  Issue #73
• Phantom solar: the crucial invisible system needed before you install solar  Issue #78
• Build a portable woodstove for $30  Issue #78
• Install a mobile, solar powered toilet  Issue #79
• How to select the right backup generator  Issue #82
• Battery powered weekend retreat  Issue #83
• Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups  Issue #83
• Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out  Issue #84
• Solar power 101: Batteries  Issue #87
• Solar Power 101: Batteries part 2  Issue #88
• Solar power 101: Inverters  Issue #89
• Solar power 101: Solar arrays  Issue #90
• Space heater safety tips  Issue #90
• Better wood heating  Issue #90
• Water pumping windmills  Issue #90
• Build your own solar-powered water pumping station  Issue #91
• Build a simple solar powered outdoor light  Issue #92
• Paring down for off-grid living  Issue #93
• Add solar power to your truck camper  Issue #93
• Grid-tie solar powered farm  Issue #94
• The care & feeding of solar batteries  Issue #95
• Walden Pond, the solar version  Issue #99
• Walden Pond the solar version, part 2  Issue #100
• Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon  Issue #101
• Solar-powered refrigerators  Issue #102
• Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?  Issue #103
• Hydronic woodstoves  Issue #105
• Dim bulbs in California  Issue #107
• Solar power trailer: Part 1  Issue #108
• A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home   BHM Website Exclusive
• Solar power trailer: Part 2  Issue #109
• Is LED lighting in your future?  Issue #110
• Energy class: Part 1  Issue #111
• Energy class: Part 2  Issue #112
• Energy class: Part 3  Issue #113
• Our energy crisis: It's our creation, but we can fix it  Issue #113
• Our energy crisis, Part 2 of 3: Nuclear energy is sensible and safe  Issue #114
• Solar and wind energy credits  Issue #115
• Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system  Issue #116
• Our energy crisis: Part 3  Issue #118
• Solar hot water systems  Issue #118
• LED lighting, part 1  Issue #127
• LED lighting, part 2  Issue #128
• LED lighting, part 3  Issue #129
• Homemade electric power  Issue #131
• Build a holz hausen to dry firewood  Issue #132
• Solar-powered chicken coop  Issue #132
• Portable solar power  Issue #134
• Prepper power!  Issue #136
• Prepper power! Part 2  Issue #137
• Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What's the difference?  Issue #140
• Use solar landscape lights for emergencies  Issue #141

Farm & Garden

• Harvesting the Internet for gardening information  Issue #38
• Here's a mighty creative way to protect your plants from animals  Issue #39
• Leaf mold is another way to build your soil  Issue #41
• Use plastic to get a head start on corn in the fall  Issue #41
• Here are some simple tips on how to store apples for a long, long time  Issue #41
• You can make your own fertilizers  Issue #44
• Save time and energy with the fenced chicken coop/garden  Issue #44
• For extra production, try mound gardening  Issue #44
• Use old newspapers to make your starter pots  Issue #49
• Use non-hybrid seeds and save big bucks in this year's garden  Issue #51
• No worrying about fire blight with Orient and Kieffer pears  Issue #52
• Victory Gardens  Issue #54
• Plant a Y2K garden: A guide to growing the best crops for coping  Issue #56
• Grow open pollinated seeds for self-reliant gardening  Issue #56
• Growing the eternal tomato  Issue #57
• Okra—not just for the South  Issue #58
• Plant your trees in the spring  Issue #61
• Naughty peppers  Issue #62
• Green or Yellow: Grow your best bush beans ever  Issue #62
• Home dairying  Issue #64
• Garden seeds — a great winter pastime  Issue #67
• The homestead greenhouse  Issue #67
• Love those green beans  Issue #68
• A child's garden  Issue #69
• Raised bed gardening — neat and productive  Issue #74
• Want more fruit from less space? Espalier your trees!  Issue #79
• My garden—A springboard of food, pleasure, and history  Issue #80
• Companion planting  Issue #81
• The home citrus orchard  Issue #81
• A simple backwoods hay baler  Issue #82
• Exotic plants for the homestead  Issue #85
• Grow your own dishrags  Issue #85
• Herb boxes from fence boards  Issue #86
• Growing productive strawberries  Issue #86
• Build a heated germination bed  Issue #92
• Swiss chard, the leaf vegetable that keeps on giving!  Issue #92
• Gardening for treasure  Issue #93
• Put your garden to bed for the winter  Issue #95
• How to grow potatoes  Issue #97
• A new use for old tires—A garden using tires  Issue #98
• Grow garlic and reap health benefits  Issue #98
• Flowers brighten the garden   BHM Website Exclusive
• Gardening tips and tricks  Issue #99
• Gardening the year 'round   BHM Website Exclusive
• Growing potatoes in straw  Issue #100
• Clover - From livestock forage to medicinal tea, this humble plant is one of nature's best gifts  Issue #103
• The best city garden  Issue #103
• Build an old-fashioned hotbed and start your seeds in style  Issue #104
• Fruit trees  Issue #104
• Leafy green vegetables - The underrated heroes of the garden  Issue #104
• We built John Silveira's chicken coop/garden   BHM Website Exclusive
• Propagating grapes  Issue #107
• Garden spaces for small places  Issue #116
• Jackie's garden primer  Issue #117
• Testing soil  Issue #119
• Graft your own designer fruit trees  Issue #121
• The $1 garden  Issue #122
• Tomatoes, the essential garden crop  Issue #123
• Vermicomposting  Issue #124
• Elderberries: Hospitality, health, and beauty  Issue #124
• Propagating plants  Issue #128
• Saving seeds  Issue #129
• Blueberry cash crop  Issue #130
• Wheat  Issue #130
• A small space yields a big crop of garlic  Issue #131
• Time to forget about snail and slug bait  Issue #135
• The potato hole  Issue #137
• Plant once — harvest for years  Issue #140
• Low-cost raised beds  Issue #140
• Rotten luck: The skinny on composting  Issue #141

Firearms / Hunting / Self Defense

• The SKS carbine — an honest bargain  Issue #21
• The M1A — a rifle that makes a statement  Issue #45
• Here are some answers to often asked questions of anti-gunners  Issue #45
• Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat guns  Issue #47
• Home handgun defense: simplicity suffices  Issue #54
• Defending your lifestyle  Issue #60
• Cheap guns are good enough  Issue #62
• Armed and Female  Issue #63
• Against a rapist  Issue #65
• Of kids and guns  Issue #68
• Picking a holster   Issue #69
• The rationale of the automatic rifle  Issue #70
• Armed citizens: the deterrent factor   BHM Website Exclusive
• Sight and sound enhancement  Issue #71
• Do rural homeowners need guns for self defense?  Issue #72
• Political activism, backwoods style  Issue #75
• Reflections on the Second Amendment  Issue #77
• Firearms and cold weather considerations  Issue #79
• Guns Save Lives. Chapter 1: Point Blank  Issue #80
• In time of war: The Israeli answer to terrorism  Issue #81
• 1911: the classic homeland security pistol  Issue #83
• Grouse hunting...the ultimate joy of autumn  Issue #83
• Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns    Website Exclusive
• How to shoot a handgun accurately  Issue #85
• Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns    Website Exclusive
• Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles    Website Exclusive
• Body language and threat recognition  Issue #87
• Get a piece of history: an M1 Garand rifle  Issue #89
• Armed civilians can help fight terrorism  Issue #90
• Firearms: tools of rural living  Issue #91
• Choose your ammo...police style  Issue #93
• Marlin 336: The other classic backwoods home deer rifle.  Issue #95
• Answering some well asked questions about personal defense  Issue #97
• How big a gun do you need?  Issue #99
• Centennial of the All-American .30-06  Issue #100
• Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home  Issue #101
• Weapons training for winter nights  BHM Website Exclusive
• The subtleties of safe firearms handling  Issue #103
• Avoiding legal traps  Issue #105
• Building the coyote rifle  Issue #107
• Thoughts on ammunition  Issue #108
• Moderate power firearms  Issue #110
• Preparing gun owners for the short-term future  Issue #111
• Savage Model 110 - A proven economical backwoods rifle   BHM Website Exclusive
• An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home  Issue #114
• Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years  Issue #115
• Military surplus and military "clone" rifles  Issue #116
• Preparing for hunting season  Issue #119
• Consider the 20-gauge shotgun  Issue #120
• Women and guns  Issue #121
• The Appleseed Project  Issue #123
• Big boomer guns  Issue #125
• Cold weather shooting considerations  Issue #126
• The light at the end of the gun  Issue #128
• Use the right ammunition!  Issue #130
• Tailoring guns to females  Issue #131
• Reload your own brass  Issue #132
• Affordable firearms  Issue #134
• How long should your gun's barrel length be?  Issue #136
• The time for modern; the time for traditional  Issue #137
• BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event  Issue #139
• Hiding a gun: The rules of three  Issue #140
• Can the U.N. Ban America's Guns?   Website Exclusive
• "Gun control" for dummies  Issue #141

Food / Recipes

• American food — it's as varied as the melting pot  Issue #30
• Southern cooking that doesn't just whistle Dixie  Issue #41
• Make grape juice the easy way  Issue #41
• Here are some cucumber pickles to make at home  Issue #41
• These chocolate treats make great gifts and delicious holiday desserts  Issue #42
• These salads are hearty dishes  Issue #43
• If you can boil water, you can make a good stew  Issue #44
• The dandelion is a healthful, great-tasting weed you can eat  Issue #44
• Greens and rhubarb are spring tonics  Issue #45
• Seven secrets of Dutch Oven cooking  Issue #47
• Fish — this gourmet food is fun to catch, relatively easy to cook, and healthy to eat  Issue #47
• Elegant desserts for entertaining  Issue #48
• Forget the dog, the chicken is man's best friend  Issue #49
• Your honey will love your sweet buns  Issue #51
• Recipes from my mother's kitchen  Issue #52
• 7 Mistakes of food storage  Issue #55
• Cooking from long-term food storage  Issue #55
• Chocolate - Food for the Gods  Issue #56
• Solar food drying  Issue #58
• How to use those leftovers  Issue #58
• Blanching vegetables  Issue #59
• Making maple syrup  Issue #59
• Tips and tricks for the kitchen  Issue #60
• Bologna sandwiches and roasted rabbit  Issue #61
• Moretips and tricks for the kitchen  Issue #62
• Picnicking with class!  Issue #63
• CHILI MANIA  Issue #64
• A Native American feast  Issue #66
• Home canning safety tips  Issue #66
• Love those green beans  Issue #68
• In search of the perfect cup of coffee  Issue #68
• Some unusual jellies for your sweet tooth  Issue #70
• Cookies in a jar  Issue #72
• Can she bake an apple pie, Billy Boy?  Issue #77
• Making baby food at home  Issue #78
• Bread: the staff of life  Issue #78
• Harvesting the wild: acorns  Issue #79
• Cracklin's: an irresistible snack that you can't stop sneakin'  Issue #79
• Traditional trail foods — transportable calories  Issue #81
• Making dandelions palatable  Issue #82
• Dandelion recipes  Issue #82
• Successful cold storage  Issue #82
• Homemade  Issue #82
• Piccalilli — a late summer bonus  Issue #83
• Cultured milk — Food of centenarians  Issue #84
• Garlic — the glorious bulb  Issue #86
• Vegetarian pies: they kept us healthy on the farm  Issue #87
• Hungry enough to eat a horse?  Issue #88
• Wonderful wilderness wines  Issue #88
• Tasty uses for garden and wild edibles  Issue #89
• Tahini: a health food par-excellence  Issue #89
• Turkey the old-fashioned way  Issue #90
• Pickled fish and rollmops  Issue #91
• Goat milk recipes  Issue #92
• Salmon candy and pickles: two unique ways to enjoy your next catch  Issue #93
• Cool dishes for formal summer dining  Issue #94
• Make your own nut butters  Issue #96
• Shiitake mushrooms  Issue #96
• Kids in the Kitchen  Issue #97
• Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter  Issue #97
• The wonderful world of lavender  Issue #98
• Heart healthy recipes  Issue #99
• A healthy heart starts in the kitchen  Issue #100
• Cooking with seeds  Issue #100
• Lemons, the versatile fruit  Issue #100
• No fuss, no muss, one-pan grouse supper  Issue #101
• The enchanting Chanterelle  Issue #101
• The healthy kitchen: Good spoons, good knives, good food  Issue #102
• Healthy holiday munchies  Issue #102
• Modify your oven to bake great bread  Issue #102
• Hearty stews  Issue #103
• Making good jerky  Issue #103
• Do you suffer from gout? Here are some recipes that might help  Issue #103
• Homemade healthy soba noodles  Issue #105
• You can safely and easily can your own meat  Issue #105
• The perfect holiday meal  Issue #108
• Lenie in the kitchen: A few favorite recipes  Issue #110
• Making delicious, unthinkable wines  Issue #110
• Whole grain breads baked at home  Issue #112
• Oregon Grape Jam   BHM Website Exclusive
• Brining pickles  Issue #113
• Lenie in the kitchen: Never too busy to make bread  Issue #114
• Gourmet nutrition with beans and rice  Issue #115
• Feeding large families without breaking the bank  Issue #116
• Apple and berry pies  Issue #118
• The real "Q"—Barbecue the way it's supposed to be  Issue #119
• How to organize an outdoor canning party  Issue #119
• Sunday night dinner  Issue #121
• Vegetarian and semi-vegetarian  Issue #122
• Wild edibles in delectable dishes  Issue #123
• Pistachios: historic and healthy nuts  Issue #125
• Fried Foods  Issue #126
• Lenie in the kitchen: Cheesy fish chowder   Issue #127
• Canned bacon — roll your own  Issue #127
• Woodstove cooking  Issue #127
• Switch your family to goat's milk  Issue #128
• Family dinner at Backwoods Home Magazine  Issue #129
• Brew your own root beer  Issue #130
• Buckboard bacon  Issue #131
• Adventures of a 9-pound cabbage  Issue #131
• Making yogurt  Issue #132
• The best apple pie you'll ever bake  Issue #132
• Cast iron loaf pans from breakfast to dessert  Issue #133
• Canning chickens for the pantry  Issue #135
• Middle Eastern breads  Issue #135
• Huckleberries: purple gold  Issue #136
• Banana, blueberry, and peach scones  Issue #136
• Easy homemade dairy products  Issue #137
• Meat for the homestead  Issue #137
• Deconstructing a bowl of red  Issue #138
• Food security 101  Issue #138
• The chicken and the egg  Issue #139
• Food security 101, part 2  Issue #139
• Hamburger and potato casserole  Issue #140
• Food security 101, part 3  Issue #140
• Demystifying real rye bread  Issue #141

Health

• Breastfeeding — a primer  Issue #49
• Medical kits for self-reliant families  Issue #60
• Caring for wounds in the field  Issue #75
• No dentist? Oh, no!  Issue #75
• What to do when there's no doctor  Issue #75
• For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas  Issue #76
• Avoiding heat illness  Issue #77
• SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?   BHM Website Exclusive
• How safe is smallpox vaccine?  Issue #81
• Hypothermia — a real winter danger  Issue #84
• Bath herbs  Issue #86
• Gather rose hips for health  Issue #95
• Frostbite: Don't flirt with this sneaky danger  Issue #96
• Avian Flu: How afraid of this chicken should you be?  Issue #97
• The many benefits of garlic  Issue #113
• Breastfeeding — Babies love it, and for good reason  Issue #115
• The "risks" with swine flu  Issue #118
• Your kitchen pharmacy  Issue #122
• Medicinal uses of garlic  Issue #134
• Essential oils  Issue #135
• Garden injuries  Issue #140
• Garden injuries, part 2  Issue #141

Homeschooling

• Your family can afford a computer: buy it used  Issue #39
• Teach your kids math with the banking game  Issue #41
• Based on years of personal experience, here are 10 good tips for homeschooling your kids  Issue #41
• In the classroom and at home, this system will help you grow self-reliant kids  Issue #42
• Science and truth...are they related?  Issue #46
• Teach speed reading to your children even if you can't speed read yourself  Issue #59
• How big is the solar system?  Issue #60
• Homeschooling through high school  Issue #65
• Theories of the universe  Issue #66
• Teaching the joy of reading  Issue #96

Just For Kids

• Take a nite hike  Issue #22
• Some good clean fun  Issue #24
• Killing some time  Issue #26
• Sun-kabobs & solar sizzle  Issue #28
• Some pioneer recipes  Issue #30
• Knock knock vinegar  Issue #32
• Life in the forest  Issue #34
• Visit the great prairies (right in your own back yard)  Issue #35
• Some farinaceous folly  Issue #36
• Working for a dad who works at home  Issue #40
• The barnyard scramble  Issue #106

Making / Saving Money

• Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell  Issue #36
• A canoe livery — an honest, clean business  Issue #46
• Multi-level marketing — is it the road to riches or disaster?  Issue #46
• The saga of the brand name computer and why you should buy a "clone"  Issue #47
• Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands  Issue #52
• Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars  Issue #53
• Cut your grocery bill in half  Issue #53
• Running your own business—a mother's perspective  Issue #62
• Get out of debt — stay out of debt  Issue #67
• Start a post-construction cleaning business  Issue #76
• Defeating debt  Issue #82
• How to make money from storage building auctions  Issue #83
• Shopping to beat inflation  Issue #85
• Nursing — a perfect backwoods career  Issue #88
• 35 country jobs: how folks make a living near my hometown  Issue #89
• Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch  Issue #92
• This country job really rocks  Issue #105
• 10 ways to make money on your land  Issue #106
• Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash  Issue #107
• Roger Clark: Cane syrup maker  Issue #117
• Sabrina Anderson: Child care provider  Issue #117
• Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter  Issue #117
• Cash in on your household junk  Issue #120
• Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales  Issue #126
• A guide to buying silver and gold  Issue #126

People

• This independent energy dealer says he's a "conservative's conservative"  Issue #71
• Small business profile  Issue #72

Reviews

• Book Review: Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the freedom movement 1993-1998  Issue #59
• Book Review: The Ballad of Carl Drega: Essays on the freedom movement 1994-2001  Issue #78
• Book Review: Guns Save Lives  Issue #79
• Book Review: The Black Arrow  Issue #93
• Book Review: Armed Response  Issue #93
• Movie Reviews: Eight sweets for you and your sweetie  Issue #109
• Book Review: The Encyclopedia of Country Living  Issue #141

Self Reliance

• Never underestimate a woman  Issue #32
• Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it  Issue #37
• For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the past  Issue #41
• The incredible cattail — "The super Wal-Mart of the swamp"  Issue #43
• Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass  Issue #43
• Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and recycle scrap  Issue #44
• Women play a key role when it comes to making this rural volunteer fire department a success  Issue #45
• You can become a hardcore forager  Issue #47
• Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden's production all winter  Issue #47
• You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman's "Non-electric" Hardware Store  Issue #47
• Commonsense preparedness just makes sense  Issue #48
• How to maintain a dirt road  Issue #48
• From triumph to tragedy to triumph again, Dorothy Ainsworth makes her valiant comeback  Issue #50
• Canning 101 — pickles, fruits, jams, jellies, etc.  Issue #53
• Buy your country place from the government  Issue #54
• With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times  Issue #55
• Remembering what grandma used  Issue #57
• Start your food storage on $10 a week  Issue #59
• Start a self-sufficiency garden even in a cramped apartment  Issue #61
• Jackie's tips for hardcore homesteading  Issue #62
• Make a sure-fire live trap  Issue #64
• Homestead helpers  Issue #65
• How we found our remote backwoods home  Issue #65
• Home canning safety tips  Issue #66
• The raging torrent — respect it, even when you play  Issue #70
• Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living  Issue #71
• Getting out of Dodge  Issue #73
• Disaster preparation  Issue #74
• The return of home emergency shelters takes on a dual-purpose approach  Issue #74
• 13 steps to a life of freedom  Issue #76
• Preparedness for travelers  Issue #81
• Harvest your own firewood  Issue #83
• The joys of making soap  Issue #84
• Getting logs   BHM Website Exclusive
• For fuel, fertilizer, and maybe even improved water quality you may need look no further than your manure pile  Issue #87
• Common sense about burglary prevention  Issue #89
• Catch your own bait  Issue #91
• The art of living in small spaces  Issue #92
• Finding your own freedom  Issue #93
• Self-reliance for women — surviving a biochemical attack  Issue #94
• Self-reliance is a mindset — A woman's opinion  Issue #94
• A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman's opinion  Issue #94
• Subduction zone tsunami  Issue #94
• Funerals don't have to be expensive  Issue #95
• Need more gas mileage?  Issue #96
• Survival firebuilding skills  Issue #97
• Vinegar  Issue #97
• Flashlight! Flashlight! Who's got the flashlight?  Issue #97
• Buying the right emergency radio  Issue #98
• Take care of your knife  Issue #98
• Buying a used mobile home  Issue #99
• Clean up your act!  Issue #100
• Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks  Issue #102
• 10 day survival pack for your vehicle for just $25  Issue #104
• The coffee mug knife sharpener  Issue #105
• Cleaning a well  Issue #105
• Lessons learned from an ice storm  Issue #108
• Caveman walking stick  Issue #108
• The trigger line  Issue #108
• Wildlife tracking 101  Issue #109
• Tips for finding your affordable home   BHM Website Exclusive
• Hunting to fill the dinner pot  Issue #110
• Circle of friends—The importance of other people in our preparedness plans  Issue #111
• Protein—the cornerstone of a survival diet  Issue #111
• Sewing and using cloth diapers is easier than you think  Issue #113
• The fire wick fire starter  Issue #114
• The community treasure chest  Issue #114
• Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar  Issue #116
• A survival key ring  Issue #117
• Cast iron  Issue #118
• Preparing for civil unrest  Issue #118
• Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance  Issue #120
• Call me plumber  Issue #121
• Pasteurizing milk  Issue #123
• The poor man's ultra-light dual-fuel backpacking stove  Issue #124
• A worthwhile journey  Issue #124
• Building and stocking your pantry  Issue #125
• Life-saving snowshoes  Issue #126
• Drive your own freshwater well  Issue #128
• Make your own firestarters  Issue #129
• Fly it proudly and properly  Issue #130
• Wash day  Issue #130
• Survival storeroom  Issue #130
• Earthineer  Issue #131
• Stashing junk silver for bad times  Issue #131
• The 7 core areas of preparedness  Issue #133
• Homestead burnout: what it is and how to avoid it  Issue #134
• Build a poultry killing cone  Issue #135
• Bartering for bad times  Issue #138
• Swedish log candle  Issue #138

Small Town America

• Thorne Bay, Alaska  Issue #84
• Thermopolis, WY  Issue #85