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Animals

Brooder in a box

A contrary guide to feeding animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Building

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

By Jane Duquette Issue #148 • July/August, 2014 For delicious squaw candy, start with the freshest fish. One fresh July evening at our summer cabin in Soldotna,...

Build Your Own Hoop House

Build a pizza oven

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Farm and Garden

Build a Keyhole Garden

By Katelynn Bond Issue #152 • March/April, 2015 One of the hazards of living on the side of a mountain in northern New Mexico is that...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Love Those Green Beans

Tea for the garden

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

Remembering what grandma used

Constitution of the united States of America

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Demystifying real rye bread

Betty’s Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

Canning game meat

Raspberry ketchup

Self-reliance

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Woodstove cooking

Space heater safety tips

Dollar Store to the Rescue

Energy

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Millenium Vehicles

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

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...

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

The time for modern; the time for traditional

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Choose your ammo… police style

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...