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Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

The homestead cat

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Build a poultry killing cone

Building

The Forever Floor

By David Lee Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 It is pretty devious starting off an article with an exaggeration but now that I have your attention...

Choosing a chain saw

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Farm and Garden

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 While growing up in Detroit, we had no nut trees in our yard (though we did have seedlings...

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

The Best City Garden

Pruning Blueberries

Tracing a bean

Americana and History

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

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

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Anne’s Sausage and Cabbage

Fireplace cooking cures the winter blues

Vegetarian and semi-vegetarian: Healthy meals that satisfy the omnivore

Dehydrating food

Self-reliance

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

Homestead helpers

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

The many benefits of garlic

Energy

Keep the Ice On

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Guns and Hunting

Cold weather shooting considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 Winter will soon be upon us. Cold weather makes a lot of things more difficult. Running. Walking. Navigating...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Just because

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...