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Animals

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Brooder in a box

Raising cattle on your own place

Building

Adventures with a portable sawmill

By Pat Barden Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 I was raised in the suburbs and spent most of my adult life living in apartments and houses...

Build a pallet fence

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Building Eric’s house

Build your own log home in the woods

Farm and Garden

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown...

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Victory Gardens

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

Remembering what grandma used

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

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

Food and recipes

Cool dishes for formal summer dining

Española eggs

Salmon loaf

Coffee Kringle

Self-reliance

Buying the right emergency radio

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

Bugging out in place

Call me plumber

Energy

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Solar suitcase

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...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

How big a gun do you need?

Air power superiority

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Science

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...