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Animals

Goat birthing and raising kids

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Building

Small engine maintenance for women

By Michelle Richards Issue #24 • November/December, 1993 How many small engines do you have on your homestead? I counted mine the other day and came...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Building and stocking your pantry

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Farm and Garden

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

By Donna Insco  Issue #158 March/April, 2016 According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website, "CDC estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans...

Saving Seeds

Build a Keyhole Garden

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Three Raised Bed Designs

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Food and recipes

Fish — This gourmet food is fun to catch, relatively easy to cook, and healthy to eat

Lamb and Apricot Pilaff

Home canning safety tips

Peloponnesian Pot Roast

Self-reliance

In the classroom and at home, this system will help you grow self-reliant kids

Buying the right emergency radio

10 tips for selling your homemade product

What to do when there’s no doctor

Energy

Build Your Own Car Wash

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Battery powered weekend retreat

Build a community assistance recharging station

Guns and Hunting

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...

Sight and sound enhancement

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Thoughts on ammunition

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...