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Animals

Beekeeping basics

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Building and stocking your pantry

By Jackie Clay Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 At the turn of the 19th century, most country homes had a walk-in pantry, as well as a...

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Building your chicken coop

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Gabion walls for form and function

Farm and Garden

Growing Strawberries

By Patrice Lewis Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 As you read this, the wind may well be howling and the snow piling deep, and you're likely...

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Home-Grown Eggs

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Americana and History

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

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

The vanishing outhouse

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

The perfect holiday meal

Boston brown bread

A healthy heart starts in the kitchen

Coffee Kringle

Self-reliance

Homestead security for women

Cleaning a well

Turn your passion into a business

Winter in the High Desert — Understanding the music

Energy

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Build Your Own Car Wash

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

Canning game meat

Sight and sound enhancement

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Science

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 —...