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Animals

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...

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Farm and Garden

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...

Grow some winter squash this year

Tracing a bean

Love Those Green Beans

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

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

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Big boomer guns

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Science

Gee-Whiz: Time

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2016, Backwoods Home Time. We can’t see, feel, hear, smell, or taste it, but we can measure it and we break it...

The many benefits of garlic

The world is ending! … Again?

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Raising Rabbits

By Linda Gabris Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 If you take pride and pleasure in growing your own organic garden foods and raising your own chemical-free...

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

By Amanda J. Kemp Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 Spring brings the pitter-patter of little feet in the mud, games of tag, and raucous quacks. While...

The homestead cat

Beekeeping basics

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Is that a good pig?

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done by using a water-based nutrient solution to deliver the necessary...
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Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

By Jackie Clay Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 During the crispy fall afternoons, we listen often and intently to the weather forecasts. "It's going to be clear tonight," I'd tell my late husband, Bob, and my...
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