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Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Raising your own beef for your family

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Bovine basics for beginners

Building

Build an all-purpose ladder

By Robert L. Williams Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 Figure 7 Figure 8 The story never varies. If I am doing outside...

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

Choosing a chain saw

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Farm and Garden

Gardening for Treasure

By Alice B. Yeager Tomatoes are a boon to mankind in health benefits. It doesn't matter whether they are the large...

The Potato Hole

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Three Raised Bed Designs

Meat For the Homestead

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...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Grandpa’s justice

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

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

Food and recipes

Pear honey

Ruth’s old-fashioned zucchini pickles

Bacon-Avocado Potato Salad

Tabbouleh

Self-reliance

Wash day

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

Making maple syrup

Digging a shallow well

Energy

Generators alone are not enough

Portable solar power

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Battery powered weekend retreat

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...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

The Appleseed Project

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...