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Animals

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Get to know your spiders

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

By Roy Martin Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 A hotbed is a miniature greenhouse that is heated to protect new seedlings from cold. The hotbed differs...

Rural Building

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Getting logs

Shake update

Farm and Garden

Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online...

Meat For the Homestead

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Build a Keyhole Garden

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Canning Steelhead and Tuna

Elissaburgettes

Pistachios — Historic and healthy nuts

Hungry enough to eat a horse?

Self-reliance

Make your own firestarters

Dollar Store to the Rescue

I heat my house by burning corn

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Energy

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Grid-down battery devices

Add solar power to your truck camper

Guns and Hunting

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Building the coyote rifle

Canning game meat

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...