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Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our...

Build a Trail

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Claw Hammers

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Farm and Garden

Slug Zapper

By Joel Winters Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 I live in a small clearing in a big forest. This is on the rainy side of the...

Okra — Not Just for the South

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Flowers Brighten the Garden

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Americana and History

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

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...

Choose your ammo… police style

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Reload your own brass

Sight and sound enhancement

Science

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

By O. E. MacDougal January/February 2016, Backwoods Home Most people don’t know that we’re currently in an ice age and have been for the last 2.58...

The many benefits of garlic

Gee-Whiz: Trees

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

By Jackie Clay Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 When I was a child, I used to read and re-read the chick section in our Sears and...

Home Dairying

By Marcella Shaffer Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 There is a big difference between home dairying to produce food for your family and dairying to sell...

Slaughtering and Butchering

Raising your own beef for your family

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Animal disease traceability

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown spinach, there is a world of difference between its taste...
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The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 My grandson Tommy was probably 50 feet up off the ground when he hollered, "Catch this one, Grandpa!" With those words of warning he dropped another gunny...
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