Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Slaughtering and Butchering

Get to know your spiders

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Building

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #50 Mar/Apr 1998 BHM readers are familiar with Dorothy Ainsworth, the log home-building Ashland, Oregon, waitress who spent more than six years...

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

This coop is for the birds

Build a ski sled

A house a tornado helped build

Farm and Garden

Home-Grown Eggs

By Allen Easterly Issue #165 • May/June, 2017 Maybe you’ve thought about keeping a few chickens for their eggs but didn’t want to be awakened at...

Build Your Own Hoop House

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Grow some winter squash this year

Propagating Grapes

Americana and History

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

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Breakfast Cereal

The chicken and the egg

Old-fashioned baked beans

Hamentaschen

Self-reliance

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Clean up your act!

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

Energy

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Energy class: Part 3

Prepper power! Part 1

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Guns and Hunting

Sight and sound enhancement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 Enhancing vision and hearing can make you a safer, more effective shooter, and sometimes can save human lives. Captain...