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Animals

Goat birthing and raising kids

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Building

Adventures with a portable sawmill

By Pat Barden Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 I was raised in the suburbs and spent most of my adult life living in apartments and houses...

How to Install a Steel Roof

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Farm and Garden

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 Garlic is one of our oldest herbs on record. Anyone can grow garlic...

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

Meat For the Homestead

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

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

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

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Chicken chili

Grouse Hunting — The Ultimate Joy of Autumn

Hungry enough to eat a horse?

Chicken Curry

Self-reliance

Making apple pectin

Advice from second-time homesteaders

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Homemade skin care products

Energy

Job site solar power

Homemade electric power

Solar hot water systems

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Reload your own brass

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

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...