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Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Bovine basics for beginners

Redworm farming

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Building

This coop is for the birds

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 You can buy a dozen eggs at the supermarket for 99 cents, or you can go out to...

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Never underestimate a woman

Farm and Garden

How to become a backyard beekeeper

By Sheri Jones If you’ve been intrigued by the idea of becoming a beekeeper but think you don’t have the space, resources, or knowledge, you’re...

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Victory Gardens

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

The vanishing outhouse

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

The barnyard scramble

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

Food and recipes

Hummus

Turkey Tetrazzini

How to can chopped garlic

Fermented dill pickles

Self-reliance

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Saving money on the homestead

For safety’s sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly

Energy

Solar Food Drying

Hydronic woodstoves

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Women and guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 In a time when what used to be called "the women's liberation movement" has achieved many of its...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Affordable firearms

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...