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Animals

The homestead cat

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Home Dairying

Building

Build Your Own Car Wash

By Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 Completed car wash in operation If someone told me a year ago that I would have a...

Build a log crib

Building and stocking your pantry

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Build your own portable forge

Farm and Garden

Meat For the Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Meat is often the most expensive portion of our grocery bill, and it is getting more and more...

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Build Your Own Hoop House

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Americana and History

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 —...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Linguini with Clam Sauce

The incredible cattail — The super Wal-Mart of the swamp

Emergency casserole

Dollar Store to the Rescue

Self-reliance

Breastfeeding — A primer

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Make your own firestarters

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Energy

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Solar power trailer Part 1

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Guns and Hunting

Air power superiority

When a well-placed shot is required, when stealth and quiet are called for, an air rifle may be the best option. By Gary Lewis Issue #151 • January/February,...

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Reload your own brass

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...