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Animals

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Raising Rabbits

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

Home Dairying

Building

Install rafters alone the easy way

By Robert L. Williams Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 Anyone who has ever worked on roof framing knows that nailing up rafters is a two-man job...

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Build a deluxe barrel stove

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Farm and Garden

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

By John Silveira Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My engineer father was not fond of wasting time or energy. He was always searching for a better,...

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

The Home Citrus Orchard

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

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

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

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Family dinner at Backwoods Home Magazine

Chow-chow

Salmon loaf

Louisiana gumbo

Self-reliance

Building and stocking your pantry

Brood X

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Frostbite — Don’t flirt with this sneaky danger

Energy

Power-up bag

Making and using a solar cooker

Prepper power! Part 1

Grid-down battery devices

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...

Picking a holster

Reload your own brass

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Building the coyote rifle

Science

Gee-Whiz: Time

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2016, Backwoods Home Time. We can’t see, feel, hear, smell, or taste it, but we can measure it and we break it...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Gee-Whiz: Trees

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

How big is the solar system?

Politics and Commentary

The Runaway

When “good” laws are bad

Mousers and cat loonies

Losing our rights as we watch television

Animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

By Jackie Clay Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 When I was a child, I used to read and re-read the chick section in our Sears and...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Bovine basics for beginners

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Raising cattle on your own place

Self-Reliance

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Pump water for free

Breastfeeding — A primer

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Farm and Garden

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our root cellar where they will keep for up to six...

Plant Once Harvest for Years

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 Year after year we start seeds, till the ground, plant, weed, harvest, then tear it all out at the end of the season. It's a lot of work,...