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Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Raising cattle on your own place

Beekeeping basics

Build a poultry killing cone

Building

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #50 Mar/Apr 1998 BHM readers are familiar with Dorothy Ainsworth, the log home-building Ashland, Oregon, waitress who spent more than six years...

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

A house a tornado helped build

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

How to maintain a dirt road

Farm and Garden

Build Your Own Hoop House

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 I’ve had my own garden for more than half a century, and I have learned a few things...

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

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 vanishing outhouse

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

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Salmon candy and pickles — Two unique ways to enjoy your next catch

Huckleberries purple gold

Cornmeal sour cream biscuits

Adventures of a 9-pound cabbage

Self-reliance

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Defeating debt

The community treasure chest

Energy

Keep the Ice On

Solar hot water systems

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Solar-powered chicken coop

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Choose your ammo… police style

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

The Appleseed Project

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...