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Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Beekeeping basics

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Building

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

By Thomas Brewer Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 I am not ambidextrous. My wife, Judith, uses chopsticks with either hand or even both hands at once....

Our Unconventional House

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Woodbarrow

Build a log crib

Farm and Garden

Gardening Tips and Tricks

By Charles Sanders Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 Gardeners are an ingenious lot. Trial and error, time, study, observation, and experience all help us to come...

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

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....

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

The dandelion is a healthful, great tasting weed you can eat

These chocolate treats make great gifts and delicious holiday desserts

Adventures of a 9-pound cabbage

Persimmon bread

Self-reliance

Homestead water

Survival storeroom

Make a Sure-Fire Live Trap

Make your own firestarters

Energy

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Keep the Ice On

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Solar Building Design

Guns and Hunting

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...

Catch your own bait

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

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 —...