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Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

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

Raising your own beef

Is that a good pig?

Building

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

By Monika Williams Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 I am always trying to come up with different ways to utilize the small space I have to...

Build a wood crib with free materials

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Renovating old walls

Farm and Garden

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

By Sherry Willis Issue #145 • January/February, 2014 The recent droughts in the midwest have meant hard times for many livestock owners. Areas without irrigation saw...

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Blueberry Cash Crop

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

Constitution of the united States of America

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

Grandpa’s justice

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Pastoral bread

Two beans and wild asparagus salad

Canning 101 — Pickles, fruits, jams, jellies, etc.

Making dandelions palatable

Self-reliance

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

The Trigger Line

The 7 core areas of preparedness

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Energy

Water pumping windmills

Job site solar power

Generators alone are not enough

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Guns and Hunting

Moderate power firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Robert Ruark, the great American writer of the mid-Twentieth Century, was also a big game hunter. One of...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Women and guns

Cold weather shooting considerations

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...