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Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Home Dairying

Building

Build a barrel stove

By Nick Weston Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 This stove kept me warm and provided an excellent cooking surface for more than six months while I...

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Building and stocking your pantry

Build a pizza oven

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Farm and Garden

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

By Edward Love Johnson Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 I began experimenting with mound gardening several years ago, due to limited garden space. Then as time...

Growing Potatoes in Straw

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Americana and History

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

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

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Easy-to-make farmer’s cheese

Shiitake mushrooms

Pastoral bread

Bean-beef casserole

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Some farinaceous folly

Cash in on your household junk

Stay clear of young wild animals

New yarn from old sweaters

Energy

Build a community assistance recharging station

Solar power trailer Part 2

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Guns and Hunting

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

By Massad Ayoob Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Jeff Yago, Backwoods Home's energy writer, recently completed a couple of concealed carry handgun courses. The classes apparently...

Reload your own brass

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

The Appleseed Project

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...