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Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

Goat birthing and raising kids

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Raising rabbits for profit

Building

Building a $3,000 Barn

By Robert Van Putten Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 There comes a time when all homesteaders start thinking of livestock, and 14 years ago, we were...

Shake update

Build a ski sled

Make adobe bricks

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Farm and Garden

Fruit Trees

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki...

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

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Gardening for Treasure

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Americana and History

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

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

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Baking Bread

Keep the Ice On

Boston Baked Beans

Wheat

Self-reliance

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Cold process goat milk soap

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Make a Sure-Fire Live Trap

Energy

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Job site solar power

Solar-powered refrigerators

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Guns and Hunting

Thoughts on ammunition

By Massad Ayoob Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Ammunition is to firearms as gasoline is to automobiles. However, with guns and ammo, the fit isn't quite...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Cold weather shooting considerations

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

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 —...