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Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Raising Rabbits

Brooder in a box

Building

Building Eric’s house

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #112 • July/August, 2009 This is the first in a series of several articles documenting the building of a stud-frame house from...

Easy awnings

The Forever Floor

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Farm and Garden

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're...

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Grow some winter squash this year

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Americana and History

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Constitution of the united States of America

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Sweet Ginger Eggs

Polish Chicken

Food security 101: Part 1

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

Self-reliance

New yarn from old sweaters

The 7 core areas of preparedness

A determined Rose Bley escaped the city

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

Energy

Making and using a solar cooker

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Power Up

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Sight and sound enhancement

Affordable firearms

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...