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Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Choosing a chain saw

By Steven Gregersen Issue #119 •September/October, 2009 Winter will be here soon and along with winter comes cold weather and high heating bills. Obviously there's nothing...

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Growing Strawberries

By Patrice Lewis Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 As you read this, the wind may well be howling and the snow piling deep, and you're likely...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

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

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

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

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it

The coffee mug knife sharpener

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

Science and truth. Are they related?

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Science and truth. Are they related?

Losing our rights as we watch television

Want proof of luck, ESP, and psychic powers?

Looking back on 20 years of BHM

Goat birthing and raising kids

By Jackie Clay Issue #112 • July/August, 2008 Dairy goats form one of the cornerstones of our homestead. Not only do they provide milk, cheese, ice...

Home Dairying

By Marcella Shaffer Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 There is a big difference between home dairying to produce food for your family and dairying to sell...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki variety. Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 There's not one of us who...

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown spinach, there is a world of difference between its taste...