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Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Raising cattle on your own place

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

Slaughtering and Butchering

Building

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My family has always been big on birthdays and holidaysincluding Thanksgiving, Christmas, Memorial Day, Fourth of July,...

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Easy awnings

Farm and Garden

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

By Rebekah L. Cowell Photos by Amanda Egdorf-Sand Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 Vermicomposting takes composting to another level using Eisenia foetida (commonly known as red wiggler,...

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

How to Grow Garlic

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

The $1 Garden

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Biological and chemical weapons through history

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

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Picking and preserving the wild plum

Kids in the Kitchen

Maple Spiced Broiled Salmon

Deconstructing a bowl of red

Self-reliance

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

Saving money on the homestead

Disaster preparation!

The coffee mug knife sharpener

Energy

Solar Building Design

Add solar power to your truck camper

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Guns and Hunting

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

Building the coyote rifle

Picking a holster

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...