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Animals

Once a day milking

Slaughtering and Butchering

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Redworm farming

Building

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

By Joe Mooney Issue #146 • March/April, 2014 Using a corrugated road culvert as a cistern is an economical way to add to your water storage....

Build a chicken house in a day

New invention— The Fencerunner

Build a pallet fence

How to Install a Steel Roof

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

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Mid-season planting

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

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

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Make grape juice the easy way

Pickled Sweet Green Tomatoes

Stuffed Eggplant

Homemade baking extracts

Self-reliance

A determined Rose Bley escaped the city

Just for Kids: Knock knock vinegar

The coffee mug knife sharpener

Just for Kids: Some farinaceous folly

Energy

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Energy class: Part 1

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

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...