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Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Bottle-raise a calf

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

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Building

Never underestimate a woman

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #32 Mar/Apr 1998 (In the May/June issue , we published an article by Dorothy Ainsworth titled "Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log...

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Farm and Garden

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

Okra — Not Just for the South

The Homestead Greenhouse

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Mid-season planting

Americana and History

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

By John Silveira Issue #31 • January/February, 1995 "What were you listening to when I got to your house? Sounded nice. I don't think I've ever...

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

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Artichoke Omelet Appetizer

Tastes Just Like Chicken

Here are some cucumber pickles to make at home

Fireplace cooking cures the winter blues

Self-reliance

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Homeschooling your dylsexic kid

Dealing with heat stress

Bath herbs

Energy

Keep the Ice On

Build a community assistance recharging station

Solar power trailer Part 1

Solar power trailer Part 2

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...

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Big boomer guns

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Science

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...