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Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Beekeeping basics

Keeping homestead animals healthy

The homestead cat

Building

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

By Rick Brentlinger Issue #53 • September/October, 1998 If I could show you how to manufacture a product anywhere in the country and if I offered...

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Farm and Garden

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done...

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Companion Planting

Naughty Peppers

Fermenting Chicken Feed

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...

Grandpa’s justice

Fried chicken for breakfast

The time-travel ad

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

Food and recipes

Bob’s basic breads for beginners, bachelors, barbarians, and backwoodsmen

Tabbouleh

Preserving plums

Earth’s greatest cookies

Self-reliance

Space heater safety tips

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

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Make a quilt out of Levis

Energy

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

Water pumping windmills

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Guns and Hunting

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Reload your own brass

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

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...