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Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Finding the best dog for the country life

Building

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

By Roy Martin Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 A hotbed is a miniature greenhouse that is heated to protect new seedlings from cold. The hotbed differs...

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

A simple backwoods hay baler

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Farm and Garden

How to become a backyard beekeeper

By Sheri Jones If you’ve been intrigued by the idea of becoming a beekeeper but think you don’t have the space, resources, or knowledge, you’re...

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Americana and History

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

The time-travel ad

Grandpa’s justice

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Just for Kids: Some pioneer recipes

Apple slaw

Buckboard bacon

Traditional trail foods — Transportable calories

Self-reliance

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

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

Power Up

The community treasure chest

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

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

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Portable solar power

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...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

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

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...