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Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Once a day milking

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Building

A cabin for one

By Lee Greiman Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Between 1989 and 1990 I built a 20 by 20-foot log house on the Musselshell River in Montana....

Build a poultry killing cone

Build an all-purpose ladder

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Potatoes

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Potato plants need plenty of sunshine, a well drained soil, and no weed or grass interference. Ideal...

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Love Those Green Beans

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

The greatest American who was never President

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

The incredible cattail — The super Wal-Mart of the swamp

The real “Q” — Barbecue the way it’s supposed to be

The healthy and tantalizing pomegranate

Chicken Enchiladas

Self-reliance

Medicinal uses of garlic

Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass

Buy your country place from the government

Hypothermia — A real winter danger

Energy

Homemade electric power

Solar Food Drying

Solar power trailer Part 1

Prepper power! Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 One of our readers e-mailed John Silveira to tell him that taking a handgun afield after a long...

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

Moderate power firearms

The Appleseed Project

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

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...