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Animals

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Switch your family to goat’s milk

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

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Building

Build a wood crib with free materials

By Mark R. Roach Issue #156 • November/December, 2015 Trying to stack wood so it stays up without falling can be a challenge. Just when you...

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Build Your Own Hoop House

Farm and Garden

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

By Corcceigh Green Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Isn't it funny how even the things we step on while walking on the lawn have value? I...

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Grandpa’s justice

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

Food and recipes

Stuffed Eggplant

French Onion Soup

Venison Stew

Fig preserves

Self-reliance

Homemade skin care products

Better wood heating

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Homeschooling your dylsexic kid

Energy

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Homemade electric power

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Guns and Hunting

Air power superiority

When a well-placed shot is required, when stealth and quiet are called for, an air rifle may be the best option. By Gary Lewis Issue #151 • January/February,...

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Big boomer guns

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...