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

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Rural Building

By Martin Harris Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 From the architect's chair Before beginning any building project, it is usually beneficial, from a time and cost perspective,...

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Build your own log home in the woods

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

By Lisa LaFreniere Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 Bush Beans, or snap beans as they're sometimes referred to, are a growing favorite among many gardeners, and...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

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

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

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

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Tips for finding your affordable home

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Solar power for farm and ranch

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Choose your ammo… police style

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...

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

Golf’s critical life lessons are under threat

The parasitic nature of bureaucracy

Can an understanding of math and statistics save America’s freedoms?

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

By Karen McGeorge Sanders Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 It seems that farmers always need an extra pair of hands, but finding the money to pay...

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

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Flea market stories and strategies

Getting out of Dodge — 10 Things I am doing to prepare for the move to the country

Sew a baby quilt in two days… for a lifetime of memories

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

By Jereme Zimmerman Issue #175 • January/February/March, 2019 My journey to becoming a beekeeper has been a long one, and I’m still not quite there yet. For the past five years or so, I have read...

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

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #173 • September/October, 2018 When compared to our ancestors, we are very lucky to have readily-available tools. Stores are full of anything you could need and with online shopping, you don’t even...