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Animals

Get to know your spiders

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

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

Building

A simple backwoods hay baler

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #82 • July/August, 2003 During the winter months, Steve and his wife Tandy feed between 120 and 150 bales of hay...

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Rural Building

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

Farm and Garden

Propagating Plants

By Jackie Clay Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 We all love the idea of having a big, productive garden, full of all the nutritious, tasty foods...

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Build Your Own Hoop House

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Basic chicken broth

Hot Artichoke Dip

Venison — From the Field to the Fork

Crabapple jelly

Self-reliance

Avoiding heat illness

Buying the right emergency radio

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Homestead security for women

Energy

Energy class: Part 3

Keep the Ice On

Power-up bag

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Guns and Hunting

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

By Claire Wolfe Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 My friend Jack pulled the car into a grassy clearing. We donned rubber boots, fetched a metal detector...

How big a gun do you need?

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

The time for modern; the time for traditional

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...