Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Building

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

By Suzy Lowry Geno Website Exclusive • April, 2007 I have what seems like mountains of great "fertilizer" from my barn full of English Angora rabbits....

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

How to Install a Steel Roof

How to maintain a dirt road

Build a graceful footbridge

Farm and Garden

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

By Jackie Clay Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 Although I've been homesteading for more than forty years, there's always something new to learn. (I figure that...

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Growing Strawberries

Saving Seeds

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Catfish Biscuits

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Food and recipes

Easy-to-make farmer’s cheese

Cherries and Chocolate Cake

The perfect holiday meal

Egg thingies

Self-reliance

What to do when there’s no doctor

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

Cash in on your household junk

Energy

Homemade electric power

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Guns and Hunting

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

Catch your own bait

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Cold weather shooting considerations

Science

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

By O. E. MacDougal January/February 2016, Backwoods Home Most people don’t know that we’re currently in an ice age and have been for the last 2.58...

The world is ending! … Again?

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Zombie Apocalypse

Politics and Commentary

Fixing a broken jury system

My view: Socialism’s promises always end in disaster

How a high school band triumphed over a bureaucracy and union that tried to kill it

I stink! but that’s okay

Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

By Patrice Lewis Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 Congratulations. You've escaped the city life and are now the proud owners of your little plot of rural...

Brooder in a box

By Sylvia Gist Issue #80 • March/April, 2003 It's spring and the farm store has a tempting variety of baby chicks begging for you to take...

Home Dairying

Goat birthing and raising kids

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Self-Reliance

Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell

This country job really rocks

Your survival depends on water

Simplifying simplicity

Farm and Garden

Currants and Gooseberries

By Sylvia Gist Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 Currants and gooseberries all belong to the genus Ribes (pronounced "rye-bees"). There are varieties of currants and gooseberries native to Europe and North America, along with some developed...

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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 from a cold frame in that it has an internal...

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