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Animals

Get to know your spiders

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

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

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Building

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • May, 2010 Grandma Clara used to delight in telling us the story of our Dad's first complete sentence at age...

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Farm and Garden

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

By Jackie Clay Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 Start your garden this year while the snow is still on the ground. I start all of my...

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Propagating Grapes

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

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...

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

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The vanishing outhouse

Remembering what grandma used

Food and recipes

Oregon Grape Jam

Homemade pizza

Deconstructing a bowl of red

Aunt Ona’s Mandarin orange cake

Self-reliance

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

Energy

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Solar Food Drying

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Guns and Hunting

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

By Massad Ayoob Issue #163 • January/February, 2017 Click Here to read Part 1 Click Here to read Part 2 As noted in the two previous parts of...

The Appleseed Project

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Choose your ammo… police style

Women and guns

Science

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...