Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Fermenting Chicken Feed

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

Building Eric’s house

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #112 • July/August, 2009 This is the first in a series of several articles documenting the building of a stud-frame house from...

Make adobe bricks

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Shelves and benches

Farm and Garden

Victory Gardens

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 There have been very few times in our nation's history when "We, the people" have banded together...

Growing Productive Strawberries

Fruit Trees

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Americana and History

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

By John Silveira Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 It was snowing and three of us were up at the office. Dave Duffy, the fellow who publishes...

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Chicken with galanga in coconut milk soup

Old-fashioned hot chocolate

Fermented dill pickles

Bean Salad With Fresh Herbs

Self-reliance

Survival infection control

Stay clear of young wild animals

The art of living in small spaces

Foraging for wild berries

Energy

Solar-powered water purifiers

Build your own battery charging station

Build a community assistance recharging station

Dim bulbs in California

Guns and Hunting

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 Everything's getting more expensive. Food. Gasoline. Guns and ammunition. Not everyone who appreciates the rural lifestyle was "born...

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

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

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...