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How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

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

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

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

A cabin for one

By Lee Greiman Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Between 1989 and 1990 I built a 20 by 20-foot log house on the Musselshell River in Montana....

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

By Daniel Furtney Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 Gleaning. You may remember the term from Sunday School or your Bible studies. In the book of Ruth,...

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 —...

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

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Betty’s Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

The coffee mug knife sharpener

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

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...

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

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

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

A brief history of health and medicine

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

Why oil and other fossil fuels are good

Stumbling over your own stupidity

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

By Charles Sanders Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 A 450-pound hog will provide a lot of delicious meat. Hogs are raised throughout our neighboring Amish community for...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

Raising cattle on your own place

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

By John Silveira Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My engineer father was not fond of wasting time or energy. He was always searching for a better, more efficient way to perform chores, especially chores that reoccurred...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

By Kristina Seleshanko There are few things I enjoy more than snuggling up next to the woodstove with a cup of coffee and my garden planning notebook. Although winter might feel like a time to...