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Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

By Robert Van Putten Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 My wife and I built our homestead by hand. I’m not a professional builder, so once in...

Build Your Own Hoop House

Easy awnings

Build a stone wall

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Farm and Garden

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s...

Build a Composter

Blueberry Cash Crop

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Americana and History

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

The greatest American who was never President

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Food and recipes

Lazy housewife pickles

Chicken Saltimbocca with Escarole

Apples and sweet potatoes

Vegetable Salad with Yogurt Dressing

Self-reliance

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

Vinegar — A splash is all you need for healthful eating, natural healing, and sparkling home

Making a great rug from the rag bag

Energy

Solar-powered water purifiers

Power your bug-out bag

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Guns and Hunting

Cold weather shooting considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 Winter will soon be upon us. Cold weather makes a lot of things more difficult. Running. Walking. Navigating...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

The light at the end of the gun

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...