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Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Goat birthing and raising kids

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #43 • January/February, 1997 I know that there are a lot of really fine products available for turning logs into lumber,...

Shelves and benches

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

Build a compost tumbler

Farm and Garden

Love Those Green Beans

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #68 • March/April, 2001 Anyone with some gardening space, a sunny location, and good loamy soil with pH 6.0-7.5 can grow...

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

The Best City Garden

The Potato Hole

Americana and History

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

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

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

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

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

Food and recipes

Venison Stew

Blonde brownies

Filipino Chicken Stew

Baked Cod with Summer Squash

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Survival storeroom

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

Caring for wounds in the field

Energy

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Homemade electric power

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Moderate power firearms

Sight and sound enhancement

Catch your own bait

Science

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...