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Animals

Goat birthing and raising kids

Get to know your spiders

Is that a good pig?

Redworm farming

Building

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #50 Mar/Apr 1998 BHM readers are familiar with Dorothy Ainsworth, the log home-building Ashland, Oregon, waitress who spent more than six years...

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Farm and Garden

Saving Seeds

By Jackie Clay Issue #129 • May/June, 2011 I go through dozens of garden seed catalogs in preparation for each year's new (and better!) garden. I...

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Gardening Tips and Tricks

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Americana and History

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Remembering what grandma used

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Food and recipes

The healthy kitchen — Good spoons, knives, and food

Quince preserves

Easy homemade dairy products

Wheat

Self-reliance

Avoiding heat illness

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

The 7 core areas of preparedness

Energy

Generators alone are not enough

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Waterpower for personal use

Solar power for farm and ranch

Guns and Hunting

Cold weather shooting considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 Winter will soon be upon us. Cold weather makes a lot of things more difficult. Running. Walking. Navigating...

Air power superiority

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Just because

Women and guns

Science

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 —...