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Raising cattle on your own place

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 Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

By Jackie Clay Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 During the crispy fall afternoons, we listen often and intently to the weather forecasts. "It's going to be...

How to become a backyard beekeeper

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

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

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

The greatest American who was never President

Apple-glazed Barbecued Chicken with Spring Vegetables

Whole grain breads baked at home

Your honey will love your sweet buns

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Just for Kids: Visit the great prairies

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

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...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

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...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

If you don’t like it here, why don’t you move to another country?

Why bureaucracy will likely destroy America

The media’s treatment of blacks makes their socialist bias obvious

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

By Jayn Steidl Thibodeau Issue #36 • November/December, 1995 Have you ever had this happen to you? You've opened the refrigerator door for a cold, refreshing...

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

By John Silveira Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 What would happen if all the honeybees disappeared? According to some pundits we'd see a collapse in much...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Just for Kids: Killing some time (Create an afternoon time warp)

Flea market stories and strategies

Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my garlic business and till up three 600-square-foot beds for planting...

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Every person who is striving for self-reliance should, and most do, plant a garden from which to raise a good portion of their own food. But how many...