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Animals

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

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Building

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

By Robert Van Putten Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 For as long as I can remember, I’ve always wanted a rustic log cabin deep in the...

How to Install a Steel Roof

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Farm and Garden

Blueberry Cash Crop

By Ed Mashburn Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 My almost two-year-old grandson loves blueberries. Put a bowl of those round blue jewels in front of him,...

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Propagating Plants

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Americana and History

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

The barnyard scramble

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Greens and rhubarb are spring tonics

Braised venison pepper steak

Vegetarian and semi-vegetarian: Healthy meals that satisfy the omnivore

Four Pepper Pheasant

Self-reliance

A determined Rose Bley escaped the city

Essential oils

Picking your pressure canner — All American or Presto?

10 country do’s and don’ts

Energy

Energy class: Part 3

Water pumping windmills

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Build your own battery charging station

Guns and Hunting

Sight and sound enhancement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 Enhancing vision and hearing can make you a safer, more effective shooter, and sometimes can save human lives. Captain...

The Appleseed Project

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...