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Animals

Get to know your spiders

Raising cattle on your own place

Once a day milking

Where our farm animals come from

Building

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

By Jereme Zimmerman Issue #175 • January/February/March, 2019 My journey to becoming a beekeeper has been a long one, and I’m still not quite there yet....

Shake update

Building your chicken coop

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Farm and Garden

Blueberry Cash Crop

By Ed Mashburn Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 My almost two-year-old grandson loves blueberries. Put a bowl of those round blue jewels in front of him,...

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Okra — Not Just for the South

How to Grow Potatoes

Americana and History

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 —...

Remembering what grandma used

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

The time-travel ad

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Vegetarian and semi-vegetarian: Healthy meals that satisfy the omnivore

Fireplace cooking cures the winter blues

Pizza Casserole

Old-fashioned baked beans

Self-reliance

Earning money from home

Buy your country place from the government

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Circle of friends

Energy

Solar-powered water purifiers

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Solar suitcase

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Guns and Hunting

Firearms and cold weather considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Many of our readers have established their abodes in places which, during the winter months, do not exactly...

Big boomer guns

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Women and guns

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...