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Animals

Once a day milking

Bottle-raise a calf

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Redworm farming

Building

Build a deluxe barrel stove

By David Lee Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Winter is coming again, pretty much on schedule in spite of global warming, and it will be cold,...

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Build a Groundhog Snare

Small engine maintenance for women

Building and Using Wattle Fences

Farm and Garden

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...

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Growing Productive Strawberries

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Caring for your chickens in winter

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

Grandpa’s justice

Fried chicken for breakfast

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

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Deconstructing a bowl of red

Corn cob jelly

Tahini — A health food par-excellence

Jamaican Beef Patties

Self-reliance

Homestead helpers

Caveman walking stick

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

Lessons learned from an ice storm

Energy

Solar Building Design

Solar power for farm and ranch

Build your own battery charging station

Job site solar power

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...

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Affordable firearms

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...