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Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

Shake update

By David Lee Website Exclusive • January, 2005 Since my shake article was published in Backwoods Home Magazine, Issue #88, I have learned that some of...

A simple backwoods hay baler

Build a deluxe barrel stove

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Farm and Garden

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

By Lisa LaFreniere Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 Bush Beans, or snap beans as they're sometimes referred to, are a growing favorite among many gardeners, and...

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

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

Tea for the garden

Growing Microgreens

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

The time-travel ad

Remembering what grandma used

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Raspberry chocolate torte

Salsa

Spicy Beef

Cheesy fish chowder

Self-reliance

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Energy

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Dim bulbs in California

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Picking a holster

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Thoughts on ammunition

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...