Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Raising your own beef for your family

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Build Your Own Car Wash

Farm and Garden

Growing Productive Strawberries

By Edna Manning Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 Here on the Canadian prairies, I have found strawberries to be perhaps one of the most delicious, least-demanding...

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Growing Strawberries

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

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Americana and History

The time-travel ad

By John Silveira Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 It's become a minor Internet phenomenon. The ad reads: It's also been read by Jay Leno on his late...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

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

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Preserving plums

Wild edibles in delectable dishes

Recipes from my mother’s kitchen

Czarist Chicken Salad

Self-reliance

Getting out of Dodge — 10 Things I am doing to prepare for the move to the country

Tale of a country family

Cash in on your household junk

Storing dry foods

Energy

Power your bug-out bag

Grid-down battery devices

Power-up bag

Portable solar power

Guns and Hunting

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...