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Animals

Raising Rabbits

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Is that a good pig?

Building

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

By Don Lewis In the last issue of Backwoods Home Magazine, we covered Part 1 of livestock fencing for the small homesteader. The article included...

How safe is your electric fence?

Build Your Own Hoop House

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Farm and Garden

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

By Jackie Clay Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Every person who is striving for self-reliance should, and most do, plant a garden from which to raise...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

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

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

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

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Sweet Pickles

Bean Salad With Fresh Herbs

Texas Fireballs By Randy Young

Potato Latkes

Self-reliance

Homeschooling through high school

New yarn from old sweaters

Bath herbs

Homestead security for women

Energy

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Waterpower for personal use

Energy class: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

The light at the end of the gun

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Science

Zombie Apocalypse

By John Silveira Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 "Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked. I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal,...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Theories of the universe

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

Politics and Commentary

Golf’s critical life lessons are under threat

The Informed Juror — How an informed jury helps safeguard liberty

Reflecting on a life in the woods, and looking ahead

Perspectives on the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin shooting