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Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Shake update

By David Lee Website Exclusive • January, 2005 Since my shake article was published in Backwoods Home Magazine, Issue #88, I have learned that some of...

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Build a chicken tractor

A river rock shower

Install rafters alone the easy way

Farm and Garden

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

By Howard Tuckey Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 In less than an hour last fall, I tilled up a 4x8 foot garden bed and planted 250...

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Currants and Gooseberries

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Love Those Green Beans

Americana and History

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

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

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

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

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

Food and recipes

Fig preserves

Venison — From the Field to the Fork

Old-fashioned meat pie casserole

Spicy Beef

Self-reliance

Bath herbs

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Buying the right emergency radio

Energy

Energy class: Part 1

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Add solar power to your truck camper

Guns and Hunting

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Affordable firearms

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...