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Animals

The homestead cat

Raising cattle on your own place

Get to know your spiders

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

Building

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

By Jay Stoler Issue #117 • May/June, 2009 Fiber cement board siding is one of a number of siding materials that is replacing wood these days...

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

Build a Groundhog Snare

Build Your Own Car Wash

Build a deluxe barrel stove

Farm and Garden

The Home Citrus Orchard

By Anita Evangelista Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 It may seem like an impossible dream if you live outside of southern Florida, California, or Texas, but...

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Propagating Grapes

How to Grow Great Carrots

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

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

The vanishing outhouse

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Baked Cod with Summer Squash

Middle Eastern breads

Mexican Stuffed Shells

Persimmon cookies

Self-reliance

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Food security 101: part 2

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Energy

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Energy class: Part 3

Hydronic woodstoves

Guns and Hunting

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...