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Animals

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising Rabbits

Is that a good pig?

Building

Building your chicken coop

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Here's a coop we built from pallets and scrap lumber. The goats lived in one end and the...

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Build a wood crib with free materials

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Farm and Garden

Pruning Blueberries

By Kristina Seleshanko When we purchased our mountaintop homestead, I was excited to discover four blueberry bushes that were already established on our property. Not...

Growing Strawberries

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

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...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Fried chicken for breakfast

The vanishing outhouse

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Salmon loaf

Fried Foods

How to use those leftovers

Ham & Kidney Bean Soup

Self-reliance

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Homestead helpers

Just for Kids: Life in the forest

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Energy

Homemade electric power

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Solar-powered water purifiers

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...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Sight and sound enhancement

Moderate power firearms

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...