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Animals

Once a day milking

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Goat birthing and raising kids

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Building

Building your chicken coop

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Here's a coop we built from pallets and scrap lumber. The goats lived in one end and the...

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Choosing a chain saw

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Build a log crib

Farm and Garden

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

By John Fuchs Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 Leaves are an excellent way to add organic matter to the garden. However, using rawor unprocessedleaves has some...

The $1 Garden

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Pruning Blueberries

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Americana and History

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Fried chicken for breakfast

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

Food and recipes

Tetsukabuto squash pie

Indian Fry Bread

Layered casserole

Honey Crunch Baked Apples

Self-reliance

A guide to buying silver and gold

Food security 101, part 3: Why I love my vacuum sealer (and more)

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Better wood heating

Energy

Millenium Vehicles

Portable solar power

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

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

Catch your own bait

The Appleseed Project

Air power superiority

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...