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Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Get to know your spiders

Bovine basics for beginners

Building

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #50 Mar/Apr 1998 BHM readers are familiar with Dorothy Ainsworth, the log home-building Ashland, Oregon, waitress who spent more than six years...

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

A house a tornado helped build

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

Farm and Garden

Build a Keyhole Garden

By Katelynn Bond Issue #152 • March/April, 2015 One of the hazards of living on the side of a mountain in northern New Mexico is that...

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

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Americana and History

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

The barnyard scramble

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Pickled nopalitos

Here are some tasty ways to use those end-of-season green tomatoes

Making hard cider

Sorrento Salad

Self-reliance

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Homeschooling through high school

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

Energy

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Grid-down battery devices

Guns and Hunting

Firearms and cold weather considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Many of our readers have established their abodes in places which, during the winter months, do not exactly...

Affordable firearms

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Science

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...