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Animals

Get to know your spiders

Bovine basics for beginners

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

By Armand O. Deblois Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Cold stored fruits and vegetables are the next best thing to fresh-picked. Flavor and texture change little...

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Build a log crib

Building and using wattle fences

Farm and Garden

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done...

Saving Seeds

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Americana and History

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Quince preserves

Corn cob jelly

Baking Bread

The wonderful world of lavender

Self-reliance

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Grandma will love this personal ‘Helping Hands’ wall hanging

Just for Kids: Visit the great prairies

Drive your own freshwater well

Energy

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Millenium Vehicles

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Guns and Hunting

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #136 • July/August, 2012 The person new to guns is like the person new to timepieces. "How many of these things are...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...