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Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Bovine basics for beginners

Bottle-raise a calf

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Building

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

By John Silveira Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My engineer father was not fond of wasting time or energy. He was always searching for a better,...

Stairs — The next level

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Claw Hammers

This coop is for the birds

Farm and Garden

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

By Jereme Zimmerman  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 Bamboo: The very word evokes an image of...

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Pruning Blueberries

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Americana and History

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

The vanishing outhouse

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Blackened Chicken With Guacamole And Black Beans

Peloponnesian Pot Roast

Blonde brownies

No fuss, no muss, one-pan grouse supper

Self-reliance

Caveman walking stick

Swedish log candle

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

Cut your grocery bill in half

Energy

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Solar Food Drying

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Solar power trailer Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Cold weather shooting considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 Winter will soon be upon us. Cold weather makes a lot of things more difficult. Running. Walking. Navigating...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Just because

Sight and sound enhancement

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

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...