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Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Shake update

By David Lee Website Exclusive • January, 2005 Since my shake article was published in Backwoods Home Magazine, Issue #88, I have learned that some of...

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Build an attached solar greenhouse

The $1 Garden

By Jonathan Nunan Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 The dollar garden is simple in concept: buy as many seeds as you can for one dollar and...

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

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

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Cultured milk — Food of centenarians

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Drive your own freshwater well

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

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

Battery powered weekend retreat

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

By Claire Wolfe Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 My friend Jack pulled the car into a grassy clearing. We donned rubber boots, fetched a metal detector...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

The many benefits of garlic

By Joe Knight Issue #113 • September/October, 2008 Garlic, used throughout the world for the taste it adds to foods, is also well known for its...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Magnesium and the International Criminal Court

What kind of Americans sit on our juries?

The world’s least-free country

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

By Charles Sanders Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 A 450-pound hog will provide a lot of delicious meat. Hogs are raised throughout our neighboring Amish community for...

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...

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Raising cattle on your own place

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Funerals don’t have to be expensive

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

By Tom Kovach Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 Winter is a good time to plan your spring tree plantings, deciding what and where you want to plant. When spring arrives you'll be ready. Spring is the best...

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

By Jackie Clay Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 During the crispy fall afternoons, we listen often and intently to the weather forecasts. "It's going to be clear tonight," I'd tell my late husband, Bob, and my...