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Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Building

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

By John Silveira Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My engineer father was not fond of wasting time or energy. He was always searching for a better,...

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

Building Eric’s house

Solar Building Design

Farm and Garden

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

By Edward Love Johnson Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 I began experimenting with mound gardening several years ago, due to limited garden space. Then as time...

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Saving Seeds

Americana and History

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

Fried chicken for breakfast

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

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

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Southern cooking that doesn’t just whistle Dixie

Betty’s Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

If you can boil water you can make a good stew

Make sourdough with wild yeast

Self-reliance

Earning money from home

10 day survival pack for your vehicle for just $25

Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Energy

Build your own battery charging station

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

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Picking a holster

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...