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Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

How to Install a Steel Roof

By Morgan Barker  Issue #159 • May/June, 2016 Steel roofing isn't just for factories and barns...

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Making and using a solar cooker

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Jackie’s Garden Primer

By Jackie Clay Issue #117 • May/June, 2009 The birds are singing. The sunshine makes the day feel soft and warm. The soil is mellow and...

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Garden Spaces for Small Places

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

The greatest American who was never President

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Here are some tasty ways to use those end-of-season green tomatoes

The convenience of a bread bucket

Teach your kids math with the banking game

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Science and truth. Are they related?

By John Silveira Issue #46 • July/August, 1997 It was an argument about science. Dave and I were on one side, Dave's friends Tom and Bill,...

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Turn the poor into capitalists

Confessions of a former liberal

The unheralded roots of America’s freedoms

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

By Margaret Wright Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 When we think of a backwoods dog we generally think of a Pyrenees, German Shepherd, or other breed...

Once a day milking

By Patrice Lewis Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 It sounds bucolic, doesn't it? The simple joys of milking your own cow. Fresh milk, fresh cream, homemade...

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Frostbite — Don’t flirt with this sneaky danger

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

By Patrice Lewis Issue #141 • May/June, 2013 For much of human history, people have tried to prevent things from rotting. Literally every food preservation method we've come up with in the past few thousand years...

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

By Lyle Dykes Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 Years ago when traveling on business, I looked out of the window of my motel one morning in Newport, Oregon, and noticed a little Chinese lady flipping over...