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Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Goat birthing and raising kids

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

Building

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

By Rick Brentlinger Issue #53 • September/October, 1998 If I could show you how to manufacture a product anywhere in the country and if I offered...

How to Install a Steel Roof

Three Raised Bed Designs

Building Eric’s house

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Farm and Garden

Grow some winter squash this year

By Lisa Nourse I love summertime — I love the green of the trees, the warm weather, and growing my own food. I especially love...

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

Tea for the garden

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

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

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Cajun-baked turnip

Green Shrimp Soup

Basic brown stock

Glazed carrots with peas and onions

Self-reliance

Disaster preparation!

Survival infection control

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

Energy

Solar Food Drying

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Power Up

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

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...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Affordable firearms

The Appleseed Project

Science

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...