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Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

Redworm farming

Finding the best dog for the country life

Raising rabbits for profit

Building

Make adobe bricks

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Last winter I got a phone call from an old friend in Arizona. One of his sons...

Rural Building

Never underestimate a woman

Build a chicken house in a day

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Farm and Garden

Companion Planting

By Beverly Mettot Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 Companion planting is nothing new, and yet in recent years it has made an extraordinary comeback, not only...

Growing Microgreens

Build a Keyhole Garden

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Okra — Not Just for the South

Americana and History

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

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

Fried chicken for breakfast

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

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

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Food and recipes

Ham & Kidney Bean Soup

Creamy white bean soup with kale

Skillet Spanish rice

Potato Latkes

Self-reliance

Food security 101, part 3: Why I love my vacuum sealer (and more)

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

Energy

Water pumping windmills

Power your bug-out bag

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Dim bulbs in California

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 One of our readers e-mailed John Silveira to tell him that taking a handgun afield after a long...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Of guns and snakes

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...